Motivational Quotes

Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

13.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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 Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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