Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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 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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Fromm, Erich

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.