Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lindner, Robert

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

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mann, Horace

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Adams, John

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Seneca

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.