Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hendrix, Jimi

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

11.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Kinkel

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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Cotvos

34.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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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

42.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Cecil, Richard