Motivational Quotes

Power

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kohe, J. Martin

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rand, Ayn

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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