Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Archimedes

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Malcolm X

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

Rand, Ayn

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Billings, Josh

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca