Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Herrich

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Tilly

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

John Stuart Mill

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Kinkel