Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Norse

Best Quotes about Power

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Cotvos

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Shakespeare, William

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Seneca

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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Harry Shearer

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von