Ultimate Power Quotes

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

Education, Peace, Exercise

Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Ice Cube

Running, Lying, Cubes

Twitter post from Jun 20, 2016

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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Tom Peters

Inspirational, Leader, Ultimate

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles de Gaulle

Power, Silence, Weapons

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The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

Individual, Checks, Ultimate

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PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power of purification and faith in the power of life itself. It is not a type of rigid discipline or empty asceticism. It is a path that follows natural principles, principles, that must be applied to daily living. The Art of Peace should be practiced from the time you rise to greet the morning to the time you retire at night.

Morihei Ueshiba

Art, Morning, Night

Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Terry Pratchett

Matter, Facts, Chaos

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Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.

Glenda Green

Heart, Love Is, Expectations

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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Orson Scott Card

Faces, Staring, Ultimate

Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.242, Macmillan

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There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

Ernest Holmes

God, Ultimate

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Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Life, Success

Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

Sri Chinmoy

Conquer, Ultimate

"Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100" by Sri Chinmoy, (#8756, Part 88), 1979.

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Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

Susan Kay

Willing, Ultimate, Apprentice

"Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

Glenn Reynolds

Government, People, Historical

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Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

Eugenie Clark

Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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To rule yourself is the ultimate power

Seneca the Younger

Latin Proverb, Ultimate

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After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Terry Pratchett

Music, Two, Voice

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When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

Curtis Jackson

Self, Should Have, Goal

"The 50th Law". Book by 50 Cent and Robert Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2009.

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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Norman Cousins

Freedom, Responsibility, Democracies Have

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, People

Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

David Brooks

Wise, Writing, Choices

David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

John F. Kennedy

Country, Moving, Heart

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

Tony Robbins

Destiny, Decision, Shapes

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So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person -- you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love in love with life.

Rhonda Byrne

Inspirational, Falling In Love, Heart

Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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