Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Fuller, Thomas

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Einstein, Albert

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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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

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

White, Theodore

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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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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Seneca

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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