Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Russell, Bertrand

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

White, Theodore

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Malcolm X

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Seneca

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

Friedman, Milton

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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