Motivational Quotes

Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Harry Shearer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

12.

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

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Friedman, Milton

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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.

21.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

23.

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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

25.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

27.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

28.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

34.

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

Archimedes

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

37.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

40.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

42.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

44.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

45.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Malcolm X

48.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von