Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cotvos

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

19.

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

Harry Shearer

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Amy Tan

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William