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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hazlitt, William

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

Cecil, Richard

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kinkel

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Shakespeare, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cotvos

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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