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

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

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

Mann, Horace

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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.

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

White, Theodore

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Malcolm X

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hooker, Richard

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Castaneda, Carlos

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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