Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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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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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Friedman, Milton

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

White, Theodore

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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