Motivational Quotes

Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Power

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Baldwin, James

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

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.

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

12.

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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

19.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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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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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Boseley, Sarah

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

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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

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

Apocrypha

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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.