Motivational Quotes

Power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

- Aldrich, Withrop

Best Quotes about Power

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

Apocrypha

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Seneca

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Rand, Ayn

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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 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

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Harry Shearer