Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

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

Apocrypha

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Spanish

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

10.

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

11.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

14.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

Hooker, Richard

22.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

23.

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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

25.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

31.

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

34.

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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

42.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

43.

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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard