Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Capone, Al

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Malcolm X

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish