Motivational Quotes

Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Malcolm X

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Cotvos

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

Steinem, Gloria

11.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Hazlitt, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.