Motivational Quotes

Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Malcolm X

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Amy Tan

27.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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