Motivational Quotes

Power

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Power

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Wordsworth, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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