Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herrich

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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 never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Apocrypha

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Aeschylus

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander