Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

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

Seneca

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.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Aeschylus

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.