Motivational Quotes

Power

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

- Cecil, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

13.

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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Boseley, Sarah

19.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

25.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Bible

28.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

30.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

32.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

33.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

34.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mann, Horace

38.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

40.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

46.

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.