Motivational Quotes

Power

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Power

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

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

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.

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

Cecil, Richard

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mann, Horace

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

20.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Aeschylus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Theodore

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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