Motivational Quotes

Power

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Power

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Mann, Horace

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

17.

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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Herrich

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

Malcolm X

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

White, Theodore

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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