Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Friedman, Milton

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

11.

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

19.

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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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 secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Amy Tan

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

Cotvos

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Bible

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When the will is ready the feet are light.