Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Bible

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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 emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

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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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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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