Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Bible

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

Friedman, Milton

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Byrnes, James F.

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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.

17.

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

Henrik Ibsen

18.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

19.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Amy Tan

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

Harry Shearer

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

32.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aeschylus

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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