Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Harry Shearer

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

Barthes, Roland

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Seneca

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aeschylus

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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