P Quotes
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“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
“Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.”
“Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.”
“Power dwells with cheerfulness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Power educates the potentate.”
Source: Power, Wealth, Illusions
“Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.”
“Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.”
Source: Tierra del Fuego
“Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.”
“Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.”
“Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.”
“Power factions fight back with lies.”
“Power fears imagination because it cannot be controlled.”
“Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.”
“Power floats like money, like language, like theory.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“Power flows to those who serve.”
“Power flows to us whenever we need it. It is only the fixation of your assemblage point and your subsequent doings which preclude you from using the power that surrounds us all.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.”
“Power for the sake of power serves no one, including the one wielding it.”
“Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.”
“Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with
mightiness.”
“Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.”
“Power gained through bloodshed will drown its wielder in its own river. Those who play God forget they too are mortal until death knocks, unmerciful and unstoppable, reminding them that no throne can shield a decaying soul.”
“Power given is trust; power taken is tyranny.”
Source: Wisdom by AI: The Leader's Compass
“Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...
“Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.”
Source: The Law of Success
“power happily walks hand in hand with abuse”
“Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.”
“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”
“Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.”
Source: D.V.
“Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.”
“Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.”
“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“Power has ruined a lot of people. Powerful people with a grateful spirit always remain humble. Don't allow power to go to your head. Use your power to transform lives and make a difference in this world.”
“Power has to be insecure to be responsive.”
“Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle.”
“Power,' he said. 'Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Power hungry=life loving”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.”
“Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.”
“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.”
Source: The making of the President, 1972
“Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.”
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.”
“Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.”
Source: Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
“Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.”
“Power in the Catalogue is imagination, Emerson. The ability to create. Not destroy. The Librarian who opens doors to other worlds—new ideas and possibilities—that person moves mountains. I would go so far as to say that person could rearrange the stars in the sky out there.”
Source: Fracture
“Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.”