Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Hazlitt, William

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Steffens, Lincoln

13.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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

29.

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

Amy Tan

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

31.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Aeschylus

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

41.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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