Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

10.

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

Archimedes

11.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

12.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

20.

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

21.

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

Apocrypha

22.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

23.

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

24.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

25.

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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

33.

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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

39.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

42.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

49.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.