Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mann, Horace

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

Harry Shearer

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

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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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Kinkel

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

25.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

32.

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

33.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

34.

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

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.