Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mencken, H. L.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Swift, Jonathan

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

10.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Lord Macaulay

14.

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

Seneca

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

18.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

19.

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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Fromm, Erich

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

32.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Harry Shearer

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man was predestined to have free will.