Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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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

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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

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Seneca

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.