Motivational Quotes

Power

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Lord Macaulay

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bible

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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.

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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 earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison