Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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