Motivational Quotes

Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

18.

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

Amy Tan

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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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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aeschylus

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson