Motivational Quotes

Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

14.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.