Top 94 Quotes About Lack Of Power
#1. From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
Theodore Roosevelt
#2. Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.
Richard A. Horsley
#3. I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?
Michael C. Hall
#4. The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.
Haruki Murakami
#5. You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
John Perry
#6. A solution exists for every challenge to our peace of mind. There is always a way, somehow. What holds us back from happiness is our lack of faith in the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to address our most humble needs.
Harold Klemp
#7. Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
Anatole France
#8. A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be ... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
T.D. Jakes
#9. If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them.
J.K. Rowling
#10. It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
J. William Fulbright
#11. A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. - Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian
Rowling J K
#12. Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#13. Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government.
Murray Rothbard
#14. Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
Eric Hoffer
#15. We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
Mark Millar
#16. The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power.
Walter Brueggemann
#17. Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.
T.F. Hodge
#18. What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.
Henri Lefebvre
#19. For power finds its place in lack of power; Advance
George Eliot
#20. Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
T.F. Hodge
#21. P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency
Ivan Illich
#22. Lack of forgiveness gives others power over us. Withholding forgiveness simply allows another person to have control over our well-being.
Sue Patton Thoele
#23. nowhere her love was welcome, and through lack of use, its power had cooled and changed into hatred. It was easier to hate than to love when your love wasn't wanted. Marianne
Nina George
#24. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Criss Jami
#25. I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.
Liz Williams
#26. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
Prentice Mulford
#27. Lack of knowledge and skills, laziness, gluttony, over-indulgence, lustiness, anger, fear, greed and misuse of knowledge, power and designation are the sources of corruption in the government employees.
Dev Dantreliya
#28. The real source of her villainy came from those qualities that supposedly make men great leaders- a thirst for power, relentless drive paired with massive ego, and a total lack of emotions.
Mike Madrid
#29. Because of the power shortage and lack of replacement parts there was only one elevator running in the Empire State Building, and this one went only as high as the twenty-fifth floor. After that you walked.
Harry Harrison
#30. Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle.
Livy
#31. Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
Greg Anderson
#32. As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of comprehension."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 27
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#33. Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.
Robert Smythe Hichens
#34. Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
Sunday Adelaja
#35. mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the participants, casting them and their ideas merely as side effects of the landscape. Diamond
David Deutsch
#36. EGO stands for Exclude God's Opinion. We think we know everything. Do we really know everything about the working of physical, mental and spiritual world? Not even a tenth!
Maddy Malhotra
#37. There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
Andrew Carnegie
#39. Lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Anchee Min
#40. I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.
Elizabeth I
#41. Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
Nicolas Chamfort
#42. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
Hanna Arendt
#43. It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom ...
Siad Barre
#44. Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal not greater fidelity to the gospel but a lack of faith in its power.
James MacDonald
#46. People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
Erich Fromm
#47. If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
Emile M. Cioran
#48. There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#49. If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality.
Robert Collier
#50. Creative confidence and perseverance can make you free. Lack of faith in your own ability, surrender of will power, or panic replacing logic will make you into a spider's lunch.
Doug "Ten" Rose
#51. If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of color or you power or lack of power.
The Arbinger Institute
#52. The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
William P. Young
#53. People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura
#54. As the global powers diverge and Europe is caught in the middle, the lack of hard power will matter more and more. Being rich and weak is a dangerous combination. Europe therefore lives in a world of wolves.
George Friedman
#55. Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
Ann Cotton
#56. Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.
Karl Schroeder
#57. We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#58. Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#59. Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
Gerard Cox
#60. I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. And I too felt bound by my ignorance, by the questions that I had not yet understood to be more than just means, by my lack of understanding
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#61. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett
#62. With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
A.W. Tozer
#63. It's true that we sometimes require our faith to lean on and provide us with strength and courage, but no more than those who lack faith and lean on the truly feeble power of money.
Robert Palasciano
#64. When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.
Steven Brill
#66. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.
Bill Wilson
#67. Money is not the root of all evil ... ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.
Alan Cohen
#68. I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working ... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
Scott Kahn
#69. DEPRESSION MEANS AN EMOTIONAL SECLUSIVE FRIGIDITY PERSPECTIVE. LACK OF KNOW-HOW ABOUT THE FACTS AND SITUATIONS ACCORDING TO MODERN HI-FI GLOBE LIFE ENACTS ONE INDIVIDUAL FACING 3600/24/7 DUE TO TREMULANT EXCITED AQUIVER WILL-POWER.
Various
#71. Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.
Jim Butcher
#72. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
J.R. Miller
#73. I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese
#74. The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
Gary Hamel
#75. People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world."
"-In Pursuit of Silence
Doris Lessing
#76. Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.
William Hazlitt
#77. I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund
#78. She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.
Steven Levy
#79. The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder ... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#80. They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
Virginia Woolf
#81. even women of great beauty cannot fare well if they lack mental power.
Sigrid Weidenweber
#82. Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
Bob Schwartz
#84. The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
Theodore Roosevelt
#85. Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
Jeff Bezos
#86. The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
Napoleon Hill
#87. In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
Albert Camus
#88. When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#89. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#90. It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.
Pierre Clastres
#91. It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Frank Beddor
#92. Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount.
C. JoyBell C.
#93. Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.
Victoria Moran
#94. The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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