Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Power

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cotvos

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

Harry Shearer

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

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

Rand, Ayn

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Aeschylus

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

White, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Archimedes

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Kinkel

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aeschylus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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