Quotes with power…

Quotes 281 till 300 of 958.

  • James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Ellison If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
    Ralph Ellison
    American writer and essayist (1914 - 1994)
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  • Bert McCracken If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • John Bright If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • W. Clement Stone If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Robert Conklin If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Beau Willimon If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Seneca If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Blake Farenthold Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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