Motivational Quotes

Power

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Power

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Wordsworth, William

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Archimedes

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

25.

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

Rand, Ayn

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Theodore

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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.