Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macmillan, Harold

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Bible

14.

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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

19.

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.

21.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

31.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

32.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.