Power Quotes
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
Stéphane Charbonnier -
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
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Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
Napoleon Hill -
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
Epictetus -
Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?
Amanda McKittrick Ros -
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.
William Graham Sumner -
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
Strom Thurmond -
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise -
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Joy Page -
I don't seek power and do not run around
Benoit Mandelbrot -
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
Joseph Pulitzer
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson -
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Stephen Phillips -
We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Paul Robeson -
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
Winona LaDuke
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We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.
Blaine Pardoe -
I believe in the power of one.
Gary Hirshberg -
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
Alvin Plantinga