Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mann, Horace

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Joseph Farrell

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Archimedes

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb, Norse

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