Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Swift, Jonathan

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Seneca

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Harry Shearer

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

White, Theodore

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

43.

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Malcolm X

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster