Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Barthes, Roland

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