Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Friedman, Milton

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Barthes, Roland

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Camus, Albert

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aeschylus

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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 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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse