Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Weil, Simone

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aeschylus

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

White, Theodore

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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