Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Barthes, Roland

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Eliot, T. S.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

10.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

11.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

12.

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

13.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kinkel

15.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

18.

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.

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

26.

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

Lord Macaulay

27.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

28.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

29.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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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