Motivational Quotes

Power

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Cecil, Richard

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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