Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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 the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Cecil, Richard

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Wieder, Marcia

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