Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Apocrypha

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

38.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Fromm, Erich

43.

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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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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale