Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cecil, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

15.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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

19.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Malcolm X

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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

24.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Billings, Josh

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

White, Theodore

30.

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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Harry Shearer

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

42.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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