Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Baldwin, James

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

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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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Seneca

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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.