Motivational Quotes

Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

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

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Aeschylus

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Billings, Josh

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison