Motivational Quotes

Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aeschylus

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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 over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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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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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