Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Steinem, Gloria

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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

11.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Seneca

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

34.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

40.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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