Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Lindner, Robert

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 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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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Aeschylus

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Mann, Horace

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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.