Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Seneca

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Kinkel

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Malcolm X

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.