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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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

11.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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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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

14.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

16.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Proverb, Norse

19.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

21.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

22.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

25.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

27.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

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

32.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

33.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

Malcolm X

35.

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

Seneca

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Joseph Farrell

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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

40.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

41.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

42.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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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

45.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

46.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

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

Cotvos

49.

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.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell