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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb, Arabian

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Proverb, Norse

12.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

13.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

14.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

21.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Alinsky, Saul

33.

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

Boseley, Sarah

34.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Amy Tan