Motivational Quotes

Power

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amy Tan

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

Harry Shearer

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.