Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mann, Horace

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Steinem, Gloria

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Friedman, Milton

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

White, Theodore

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.