Quotes about power
power men personality
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. Napoleon Bonaparte
power political benches
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
power shapes incidents
International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.
power europe empires
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
power common-sense common
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
power hypocrisy politics
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
power men hair
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
power vienna
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
power politics public-opinion
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
power men great-men
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
power men animal
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
power men political
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
power stones anarchy
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
powerful believe years
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can. Norman Mailer
powerful simple knowing
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. Orlando Bloom
powerful rights turkeys
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is. Orhan Pamuk
power men he-man
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. Orison Swett Marden
powerful world sanctuary
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. Omar Bongo
powerful women mean
When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks... Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
powerful prize
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
powerful thinking people
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
powerful world most-powerful
I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world. Oleg Cassini
powerful book reality
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina Octavia Butler
power gestures terrible
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. Octavio Paz
powerful what-matters court
I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters. Novak Djokovic
powerful savages rivals
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. Novalis
powerful real spring
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
powerful thinking eagles
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring. Norman Vincent Peale
powerful creative religion
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
powerful law goal
If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
powerful healing mind
Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
powerful two people
And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!
powerful blow brain
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone. Emile M. Cioran