Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Malcolm X

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Aeschylus

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Proverb, Norse

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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 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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich