Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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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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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.

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

White, Theodore

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

37.

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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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