Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cecil, Richard

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Bible

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

White, Theodore

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

John Stuart Mill

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Elie Wiesel

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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

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

38.

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

Aeschylus

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

43.

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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, 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.