Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Mann, Horace

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

Steinem, Gloria

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Seneca

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

41.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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

47.

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

Amy Tan

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.