Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bacon, Francis

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Kinkel

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Seneca

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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