Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Barthes, Roland

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Hazlitt, William

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Lord Macaulay

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Bible

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, Norse

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Smith, Sydney