Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

White, Theodore

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Apocrypha

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.