Motivational Quotes

Power

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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

Amy Tan

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Seneca

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, 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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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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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 absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Capone, Al

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony