Motivational Quotes

Power

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

- Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Aeschylus

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lord Macaulay

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

John Stuart Mill

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mann, Horace

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

Amy Tan

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Harry Shearer

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Friedman, Milton

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Smith, Sydney