Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.