Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

12.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Apocrypha

15.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aeschylus

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Malcolm X

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Seneca

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

Kinkel

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

Alinsky, Saul

39.

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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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