Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Archimedes

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

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

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

Bible

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Adams, John

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Bible

30.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Steinem, Gloria

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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 never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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 appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob