Power Quotes - Page 18

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.27, Broadway Books

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• Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Justice, Foundation

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

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• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

  Susan Sarandon

  Kindness, Imagination, Empathy

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• Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

  Ann Wigmore

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Brain, Use

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Manifest, Every Man

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.385, Manonmani Publishers

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• I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Running, Lying, Rain

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• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rose, Germany, Gains

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• The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

  Helen Caldicott

  Country, Lying, Government

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Power's twin is responsibility.

  Willa Gibbs

  Responsibility, Twins

  WILLA GIBBS (1954). “THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN”

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• The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

  J. G. Holland

  Character, Two, Hammers

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• It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

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• the possession of power brings on madness.

  Ariana Franklin

  Madness, Possession

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• All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

  J. G. Holland

  Exercise, Men, Self

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.15

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• Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access. The President of the United States has access to almost everybody for almost anything he might want of them, and almost nobody has access to him. The super-rich have access to almost everybody; almost nobody has access to them. ... The creation and manipulation of power is constituted of the manipulation and control of access.

  Marilyn Frye

  Differences, President, United States

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• The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, Opportunity, Differences

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Art, Used, Dose

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• The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

  Kathleen Brown

  Men, Order, Differences

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• power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Passion, Human Nature, Humans

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• True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Order, True Power

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• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  A. D. Gordon

  Important, Eternity, Creatures

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• Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

  Lynda Obst

  Information, Tents, Verbs

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Distance, Player

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• Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Law, Resources, Ability

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