Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Cotvos

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

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

Aeschylus

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Weil, Simone

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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 you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Malcolm X

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.