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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.
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
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

2.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Patton, George S.

3.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

4.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

5.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible

6.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

7.
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

8.
To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Rand, Ayn

9.
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Kahn, Herman

10.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

11.
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
Hamilton, Alexander

12.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

13.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Steinem, Gloria

14.
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

15.
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

16.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Barthes, Roland

17.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

18.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos

20.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Orwell, George

21.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

24.
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

25.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

26.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Aldrich, Withrop

27.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

28.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Baldwin, James

29.
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

30.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

31.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

32.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson

33.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri

34.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

35.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen

36.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Niebuhr, Reinhold

37.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Vaneigem, Raoul

38.
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

39.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

40.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton

41.
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Proverb

42.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

44.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

45.
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.

46.
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell

47.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
Bible

48.
What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.
Wieder, Marcia

49.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Andreotti, Giulio

50.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon


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