Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

- Steffens, Lincoln

Best Quotes about Power

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kinkel

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rand, Ayn

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Friedman, Milton