Unused Power Quotes

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.

Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.