Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capone, Al

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Mann, Horace

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Herrich

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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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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mencken, H. L.

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Apocrypha

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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