Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Seneca

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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 is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Aeschylus

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Voice of one, voice of none.