Motivational Quotes

Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Friedman, Milton

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Harry Shearer

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.