Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bacon, Francis

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Kinkel

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Cecil, Richard

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Dale

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Billings, Josh

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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 the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony