Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Joseph Farrell

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

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

Kinkel

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Mann, Horace

10.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Malcolm X

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

23.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Lord Macaulay

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Lao-Tzu

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard