Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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