Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Weil, Simone

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Joseph Farrell

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Proverb

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

28.

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.

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

White, Theodore

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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