Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hazlitt, William

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Billings, Josh

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Norse

14.

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

Joseph Farrell

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

30.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

33.

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

John Stuart Mill

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

48.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lindner, Robert