Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Power

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

Baltasar Gracian

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lindner, Robert

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Cotvos

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

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Harry Shearer

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aeschylus

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