Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

17.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Aeschylus

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

25.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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.

Baldwin, James

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?