Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Seneca

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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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

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Herrich

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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A word after a word after a word is power.