Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hazlitt, William

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

10.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

11.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

12.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

15.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

18.

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

Kinkel

19.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

22.

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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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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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

27.

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.

28.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

29.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

31.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

32.

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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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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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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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

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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

37.

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

Wieder, Marcia

38.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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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

44.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

45.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

46.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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