Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

10.

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

Lord Macaulay

11.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Alinsky, Saul

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.