Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Archimedes

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Apocrypha

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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Hooker, Richard

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Barthes, Roland