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

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

Wordsworth, William

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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

Tilly

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Apocrypha

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Lord Macaulay

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.