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

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

Cecil, Richard

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Shakespeare, William

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mann, Horace

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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.

39.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.