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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. – Adlai Stevenson I

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. -Samuel Johnson

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. – Henrik Ibsen

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power. -Malcolm X

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Pittacus

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. – Mahatma Gandhi

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. – Elie Wiesel

The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender. – William Booth

People with power always take advantage of those without power. – Christopher Pike

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. – Frank Herbert

With great power there must also come great responsibility! –Stan Lee

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. – E.J. Patten

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. – Horacio Castellanos Moya

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. – Oskar Shindler

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. – Henrik Ibsen

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. -Mahatma Gandhi

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. – Lao-Tzu

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Character is power. –Booker T. Washington

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. -Malcolm X

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. -Colton

If you want to know the real character of a person, give him power, and see what he does.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -Epictetus

Be a reason for someone’s happiness, not just part of it and be a part of someone’s sadness, never be the reason for it.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. -Walter Raleigh

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Knowledge is power, Understanding is using it, Wisdom is controlling it, Magic is knowing how.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

Wherever there is power there is age.

Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power. –William Gaddis

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. -John Adams

He is the most powerful who has power over himself. – Seneca

Knowledge only becomes power when it is put into use.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -George Bernard Shaw

Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. -Harold MacMillan

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. -Baltasar Gracian

Power is attained by those who seek it, Rarely those who deserve it.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. -Andrew Jackson

Our power is in our ability to decide. –Buckminster Fuller

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. – James F. Byrnes

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. – J. Petit-Senn

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. – Bacon

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. – David Brin

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves. – Cotvos

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. – Seneca

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. – Arabic Proverbs

Positive Power is the by-product of understanding. – Jacob Bronowski

The greatest power is often simple patience. – E. Joseph Cossman

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. – Author Erin Hunter

Power doesn’t always roar…The art of exerting power is an art used in doses – the more hidden it is the more effective. – Ziad K.

The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it. – Kit Harington

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. – Honoré de Balzac

Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. – Woodrow

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. – Max Lerner

Power ought to serve as a check to power. – John Milton

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. – Milton Friedman

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. – George Bernard Shaw

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws. – John Quincy Adams

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

Power may be defined as the production of intended effects. It is thus a quantitative concept: given two men with similar desires, if one achieves all the desires that the other achieves, and also others, he has more power than the other. – Bertrand Russell

There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life. – Bertrand Russell

Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whethen human or non-human. – Bertrand Russell

Power has always been one of those words that everybody uses without necessarily being able to define satisfactorily. – Dennis Hume Wrong

Power is treated both as a quality or attribute possessed by individuals, groups, or larger social structures and as an indicator of an active or interactive process or relation between individual or collective actors. – Dennis Hume Wrong

Power is applied to physical phenomena and processes. – Dennis Hume Wrong

In recent years power has tended to become an even more diffuse and far-ranging notion in social and political theory. – Dennis Hume Wrong

Power is an essentially contested concept, meaning that people with difference values and beliefs are bound to disagree over its nature and definition. – Dennis Hume Wrong

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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Eleanor Roosevelt quote: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Helen Keller quote: Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not...

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.