Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bible

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shakespeare, William

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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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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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Bristol, Claude M.

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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

43.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret