Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Malcolm X

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Seneca

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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