Motivational Quotes

Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Adams, John

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Harry Shearer

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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.

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean