Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

10.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

11.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

13.

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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

18.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

25.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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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

28.

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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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.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

31.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Mann, Horace

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

White, Theodore

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Our power is in our ability to decide.