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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Apocrypha

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

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Weil, Simone

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Lord Macaulay

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob