Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Aeschylus

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

Malcolm X

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

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kinkel

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

John Stuart Mill

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell