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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

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

Lao-Tzu

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lord Macaulay

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Fuller, Thomas

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.