Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Elie Wiesel

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

11.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Lord Macaulay

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

25.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Billings, Josh

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.