Power Quotes - Page 27

• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  Jesse Ventura

  Minnesota, Locked Up, Ifs

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Ideas, Soul

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4520, Delphi Classics

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• Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

  Greg Walden

  Unions, Corporations, Enough

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• Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

  Horace Walpole

  School, Boys, Age

  Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'

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• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Agents, Supreme

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.410

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• There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Missing, Perception, Ingredients

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• The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

  Rebecca West

  Memories, Mere, Personal Life

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  E. B. White

  Acceptance, Men, Age

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

  Lucinda Williams

  Trying, Sound, Corny

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• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Literature, Dependence On Others, Educated

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Pits

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

  Libba Bray

  Hero, Villain, Difficult

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Positivity, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

  James C. Collins

  Mean, Greatness, Growth

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Voice, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama’s primary speech in Nashua, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2008.

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• The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Accomplishment, Purpose, Lord

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• An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Leadership, Honesty, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.185

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• Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

  Noel Coward

  Eye, People, Might

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• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Madness, Important Hamlet

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dear, Right Place

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.481, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Devil, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

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• It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

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