Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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.

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

Seneca

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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Norse

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Spanish

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?