Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Mencken, H. L.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bible

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

11.

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

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Bible

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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.