Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Eliot, T. S.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Archimedes

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barthes, Roland

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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