Motivational Quotes

Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

10.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herrich

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

Malcolm X

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Seneca

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seneca

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

39.

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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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