Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concetrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Nikola Tesla
Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle.
Scott Westerfeld
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
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 Wilson
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
Ralph Ellison
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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 Brinkley
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
James Arthur Ray
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
Michael Pollan
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer
What power has love but forgiveness?
William Carlos Williams
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery
Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.
Lord Chandos
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
William Moulton Marston
We often hear of important gatherings of the "great and the good." Sadly the great have not often been good. But the good have learned that it is better to be good than to be great. Rare is the person in this life who is both great and good.
Grant Fairley
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Lajos Kossuth
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
Jesse Ventura
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus Aurelius
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
Corazon Aquino
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.
Ernest Rutherford
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