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

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

10.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

11.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lindner, Robert

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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

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Seneca

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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