Motivational Quotes

Power

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Power

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

Amy Tan

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cotvos

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

Lindner, Robert

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bible

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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 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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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Aeschylus

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret