Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Amy Tan

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

26.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

33.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell