Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

11.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Shakespeare, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Seneca

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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.

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hazlitt, William

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon