Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

Lord Macaulay

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

10.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, 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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo