Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Mann, Horace

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Seneca

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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