Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

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"If I order a general to change into a sea bird"
The King
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"Murder is a game for those brave enough to play it."
Justice Wargrave
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"You must not underestimate the power of your own thoughts."
Chiang
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
Viktor Frankl
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"The world's greatest lie is that we are not capable of designing our own destinies."
Melchizedek
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response"
Viktor Frankl
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"The hand that evokes symphonies from glasses and from rocks can work miracles"
The Alchemist
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"I am the substance behind all phenomena."
The King
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
Viktor Frankl
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"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."
Viktor Frankl
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"Our attitude is the one thing we can always control."
Viktor Frankl
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"I reign, but over what? Over flowers that never disobey."
The King
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"The most powerful thing you can do is to take control of your own perception."
Marcus Aurelius
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"No one can accuse me. I am beyond suspicion."
Justice Wargrave
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"To execute justice oneself—that is the temptation."
Justice Wargrave
J
"I am not a merciful man."
Justice Wargrave
J
"I have become the instrument of justice."
Justice Wargrave
J
"The law cannot touch me now."
Justice Wargrave
J
"I am the judge, jury, and executioner."
Justice Wargrave
V
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
Viktor Frankl
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"We cannot always control our external circumstances, but we can always control how we respond."
Viktor Frankl
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"Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength."
Sun Tzu
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"I orchestrated everything."
Justice Wargrave
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"The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world."
Zarathustra
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"Life itself is the will to power."
Zarathustra
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"The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed upon him."
Sun Tzu
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"The commander of forces is the arbiter of the people's fate."
Sun Tzu
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"It was I who led the horses across the desert."
Santiago
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
Seneca
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"True power lies in the ability to command your own thoughts."
Seneca