Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- White, Theodore

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Friedman, Milton

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Apocrypha

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Weil, Simone

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Herrich

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.