Motivational Quotes

Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Bible

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Rand, Ayn

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.

Patton, George S.

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

10.

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

Kinkel

11.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

22.

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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

33.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Malcolm X

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

37.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Malcolm X

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

White, Theodore

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb