Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 921 till 940 of 983.

  • Carl Sandburg When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John F. Kennedy When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Akhenaton When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Greg Anderson When we blame, we give away our power.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Ernest Hemingway When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Latta When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Wallace D. Wattles Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wherever there is power there is age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victoria Billings Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Bill Owens While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Albert Camus Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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