Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Mann, Horace

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

Amy Tan

37.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Weil, Simone

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Kinkel

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell