Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Adams, John