Motivational Quotes

Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

- Stewart L. Udall

Best Quotes about Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Alinsky, Saul

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aeschylus

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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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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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

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Kinkel

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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 most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram