676 quotes found
“People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.”
“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major ins...”
“A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years lat...”
“All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.”
“There is this power that comes with being famous.”
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, ...”
“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”
“Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.”
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”
“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production ...”
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober h...”
“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, ...”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.”
