Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Capone, Al

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rand, Ayn

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

18.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aeschylus

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Cecil, Richard

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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