Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Macmillan, Harold

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Friedman, Milton

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Hooker, Richard

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Fromm, Erich

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cotvos

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

41.

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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard