Motivational Quotes

Power

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Seneca

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Hooker, Richard

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Mann, Horace

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.