Motivational Quotes

Power

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill

Best Quotes about Power

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Malcolm X

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Weil, Simone

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

24.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

26.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

27.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

28.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

34.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

35.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.