Motivational Quotes

Power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Friedman, Milton

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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

Kinkel

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

Malcolm X

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baltasar Gracian

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Apocrypha

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel