Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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.

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

10.

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

Kinkel

11.

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

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

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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 not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Adams, John

22.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

23.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

24.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

25.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

26.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

27.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

28.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

32.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Banks, Harry F.

34.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.