Power Quotes - Page 28

• You gain power by pretending to be weak.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Gains, Weak, Pretending

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Metaphor, Fertile

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• You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Hero, Evil

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Desire, Source

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Want

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning”, p.162, Penguin

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• Where there is power, there is resistance.

  Michel Foucault

  Resistance, Pizza

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.382, MIT Press

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• It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Winning, Generosity

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

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• Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1285, Oxford University Press

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Men, Submissive

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

  Wendy Mass

  Bullying, People, Being Bullied

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• Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

  John F. Kennedy

  Best Effort, Riding, Inaugural

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, People, Sobriety

  Carlos Castaneda (2017). “The Fire From Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Power is the ability to do good things for others.

  Brooke Astor

  Inspirational, Positive, Compassion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Work, Inspiration

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• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

  Richard DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Hope

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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visualization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Wisdom, Powerful

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the most powerful magnet in the universe! You contain a magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Wisdom, Powerful

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

  Agathon

  Time, Past, Denied

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• People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
  It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

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• A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Knowledge

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

  Ruth Gordon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.460

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