Motivational Quotes

Power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

- Aldrich, Withrop

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Apocrypha

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aeschylus

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rand, Ayn

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.