Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Tilly

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

Thatcher, Margaret

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

12.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

27.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

John Stuart Mill

29.

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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

32.

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Weil, Simone

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul