Motivational Quotes

Power

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

- Tilly

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Elie Wiesel

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

11.

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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Mann, Horace

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Archimedes

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.