Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bannister, Roger

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Apocrypha

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

10.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

11.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mann, Horace

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

Herrich

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lord Macaulay

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.