Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Weil, Simone

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

Malcolm X

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Steinem, Gloria

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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