Motivational Quotes

Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bible

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

11.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bible

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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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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.