Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kinkel

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Apocrypha

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

13.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

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

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Hendrix, Jimi

25.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

26.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

27.

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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

31.

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

Proverb

32.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

33.

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

Hooker, Richard

34.

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

35.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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