Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Lord Macaulay

15.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mann, Horace

18.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Seneca

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

25.

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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Bible

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

44.

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

Proverb, Norse

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

46.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Rand, Ayn

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.