Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Malcolm X

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

17.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Macmillan, Harold

23.

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

24.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Baltasar Gracian

30.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

31.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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.

33.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Kinkel

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

48.

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

Amy Tan

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