Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Spanish

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Kinkel

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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