Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Power

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.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

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