Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

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

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Arabian

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Harry Shearer

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Kinkel

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aeschylus

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Cotvos

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