Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Malcolm X

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Seneca

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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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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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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