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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Baltasar Gracian

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Friedman, Milton

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