Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

Baldwin, James

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Adams, John

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

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

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

10.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

11.

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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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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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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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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

Malcolm X

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Cotvos

34.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Apocrypha

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

Kinkel

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Shakespeare, William