Motivational Quotes

Power

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Friedman, Milton

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kinkel

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

Amy Tan

33.

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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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Malcolm X

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Rostand, Jean

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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.