Motivational Quotes

Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Malcolm X

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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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Malcolm X

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

Billings, Josh

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Wieder, Marcia

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Mann, Horace

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria