Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Kinkel

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

Mann, Horace

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

10.

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

Lord Macaulay

11.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Boseley, Sarah

15.

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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

18.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

29.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Malcolm X

34.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

41.

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

Lindner, Robert

42.

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

43.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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 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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.