Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Seneca

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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

Bible

14.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

18.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

21.

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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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