Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Hooker, Richard

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

14.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

15.

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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

23.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

26.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Alinsky, Saul

30.

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

Aeschylus

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

33.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

40.

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.

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

44.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

46.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

50.

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

Proverb