Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Friedman, Milton

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.