Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Macmillan, Harold

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Proverb, Norse

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

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

Banks, Harry F.

19.

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

Seneca

20.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

21.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

22.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

24.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

33.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

34.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aeschylus

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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

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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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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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

45.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic