Motivational Quotes

Power

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aeschylus

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Malcolm X

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric