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

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fromm, Erich

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von