Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Cecil, Richard

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

18.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

40.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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