Best power & persons Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.”

Ifs Persons Wish Power Degrees Available Drawing Decent Latin Arithmetic

Book:The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

Source: The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

“Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.”

Persons Father Energy Power Passionate Willpower Boundless

Author:Raymond Blanc

“If you have power, you might be able to heal a person. You could actually get inside their cell structures and create a change.”

Ifs Persons Might Able Power Structure Heal Cells

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.”

Persons Helping Form Law Power Creative Color Objectives

Book:Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later

Source: Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later

“Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.”

Kind Persons Form Power Groups Exercise Domination Manifold That One Person

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.”

Thinking Persons Reality Power Stupid Supposed To Be Usual

Author:Jane Jacobs

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.”

Way Persons Action Power Impact Gestures Underestimate Never Underestimate Small Gestures

Author:Jane Wagner

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

Giving Persons Motivational Running Spiritual Liberty Power Circumstances Advantage Anger Strategy Libertarian Patriotic Cool Person

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

May Persons Character Success Sound Power Overwhelmed Emergencies Highways Corny Being Overwhelmed

Author:Og Mandino

“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”

Persons Wealth Power Advantage Praise Consideration Cynicism Altruism Eulogy

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”

Looks Persons Individual Company Power Crowds Intellect Charm Temper Gifted Marvelous Looking Good Digestion Good Digestion

Book:Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.”

Persons Individual Power Struggle Relationship Likes Essayists Power Struggle Interpersonal Relationship

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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

Persons Purpose Lord Power Greater Approach Accomplishment Adversaries Greater Power

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.”

“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”

“If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.”

Ifs Persons Power Delicacy

Book:Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy

Source: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy

“We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.”

Persons Able Answers Power Essentials Angry Dominating

Author:Albert Camus

“There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.”

People Kind Persons Different Helping Energy Views Power Support Advice Willing Behavior Helping Others Serving Different Kinds Personal Power Support You True Power

Book:Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.”

Persons Ideas Power Trust Masters Ought Accounts Portions Founders Impressed Possessing Public Trust

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

“Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.”

Should Mean Persons Money Lord Power Paychecks

Author:Suze Orman

“It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.”

Source: Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.”

Persons Powerful Power Favors Wretched

Author:Robert Burns

“The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.”

Persons War Facts Faces Moving Desire Power Creative Source Praise Irrational Superficial Mystic Creative Person

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.”

Persons Strong Powerful Power Strength Anger Angry Prophet Islamic Inner Strength Self Control Muslim Being Strong Anger Management Physicality Strong People Islamic Wisdom

Author:Muhammad

“Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.”

Kind Persons Fear Sides Power Instill

Author:Robert Greene

“Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.”

“ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .”

Life Persons Death Power Deprived Orphan Ingratitude Filial

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.”

Persons Wisdom Powerful Power Wise Supreme Firm Supreme Being

Book:The Evidences of the Christian Religion: With Additional Discourses on the Following Subjects, Viz. Of God, and His Attributes, The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation, The Providence of God, The Worship of God, Advantages of Revelation Above Natural Reason, Excellency of the Christian Institution, Dignity of the Scripture Language, Against Atheism and Infidelity, Against the Modern Free-thinkers, Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State, Death and Judgment

Source: The Evidences of the Christian Religion: With Additional Discourses on the Following Subjects, Viz. Of God, and His Attributes, The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation, The Providence of God, The Worship of God, Advantages of Revelation Above Natural Reason, Excellency of the Christian Institution, Dignity of the Scripture Language, Against Atheism and Infidelity, Against the Modern Free-thinkers, Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State, Death and Judgment

“There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.”