Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hill, Napoleon

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Joseph Farrell

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wieder, Marcia

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Mann, Horace

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Castaneda, Carlos

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca