Motivational Quotes

Power

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

11.

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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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

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fromm, Erich

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Harry Shearer

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

41.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Weil, Simone

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Baltasar Gracian

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