Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

14.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Hamilton, Alexander

25.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

27.

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

Proverb, Norse

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Fromm, Erich

31.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Boseley, Sarah

39.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

42.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

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