Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Baltasar Gracian

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Mann, Horace

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

24.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tilly

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Harry Shearer

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

Hooker, Richard

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.