Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

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

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Elie Wiesel

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Amy Tan

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.