Motivational Quotes

Power

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kinkel

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

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

White, Theodore

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cotvos

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Friedman, Milton

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Amy Tan

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

46.

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Hazlitt, William