Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Capone, Al

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

Bible

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

12.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.