Quotes 501 till 520 of 963.
-
Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
-
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
-
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
-
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
-
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
-
Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
-
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
-
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
-
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
-
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
-
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
-
Power has only one duty -to secure the social welfare of the People.
-
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
-
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
-
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
-
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
-
Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
All power-releasing famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 26)
