Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Cecil, Richard

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

10.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Amy Tan

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Cotvos

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kinkel

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Baldwin, James

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Malcolm X

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

49.

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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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