Motivational Quotes

Power

The will of man is his happiness.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Barthes, Roland

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lindner, Robert

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

White, Theodore

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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 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.

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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