Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Apocrypha

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Kinkel

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Amy Tan

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

Proverb, Arabian

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