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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Archimedes

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

Carnegie, Andrew

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cecil, Richard

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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Bristol, Claude M.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lord Macaulay

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

White, Theodore

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Cotvos

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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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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 is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur