Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Baldwin, James

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Malcolm X

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Rand, Ayn

33.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.