Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Friedman, Milton

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

15.

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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Harry Shearer

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.