Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cotvos

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.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fromm, Erich

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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