Motivational Quotes

Power

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Seneca

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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.

13.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Herrich

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell