Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kohe, J. Martin

Best Quotes about Power

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Seneca

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Theodore

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

12.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Seneca

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Archimedes

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

Tilly

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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.

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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

31.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

32.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Aeschylus

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.