Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Capone, Al

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

11.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.

19.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

20.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Lord Macaulay

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.