Motivational Quotes

Power

A word after a word after a word is power.

- Atwood, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

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.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kinkel

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baltasar Gracian

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

32.

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

33.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.