Motivational Quotes

Power

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

- Woodrow Wilson

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Apocrypha

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

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Malcolm X

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A word after a word after a word is power.