Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tilly

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

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Baltasar Gracian

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Rand, Ayn

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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 commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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