Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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

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

Aeschylus

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

39.

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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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 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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster