Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lao-Tzu

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Kinkel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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

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

Cotvos

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius