Motivational Quotes

Power

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

12.

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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

14.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Malcolm X

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.