Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Seneca

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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

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

White, Theodore

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

Apocrypha

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Aeschylus

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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