Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Banks, Harry F.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Amy Tan

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

Weil, Simone

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Bannister, Roger

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Friedman, Milton

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Einstein, Albert

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

Cecil, Richard