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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. ― Lao Tzu
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That’s not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ, we cannot halt our own moral slide. ― Charles R. Swindoll
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Our power is in our ability to decide. ― Buckminster Fuller
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ― Abraham Lincoln
Every human has four endowments self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. ― Stephen Covey
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ― Roseanne Barr
Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power. ― William Gaddis
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. ― Don Miguel Ruiz
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ― Mahatma Gandhi
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. ― James F. Byrnes
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ― John Steinbeck
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ― Washington Irving
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ― Paulo Freire
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ― Kofi Annan
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ― Mahatma Gandhi
Character is power. ― Booker T. Washington
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ― Charles de Gaulle
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. ― Clint Eastwood
How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people girls, women went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill. ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
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. ― Mohandas Gandhi
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
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, for your soul is alive. ― Eleonora Duse
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
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. ― Joel Osteen
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So, knowledge itself is not evil. ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. ― J. Petit Senn.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ― Elie Weisel
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ― Unknown
Power resides only where men believe it resides. […] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. ― Bacon
The object of power is power. ― George Orwell, 1984
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! ― Joyce Meyer
Be not the slave of your own past plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ― Edmund Burke
Power lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge? ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. ― Leo Tolstoy
Power is not alluring to pure minds. ― Thomas Jefferson
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves. ― Cotvos
The steps of power are often steps on sand. ― Edward Counsel, Maxims
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ― George Bernard Shaw
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ― Malcom X
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. ― John Adams
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ― Henry Kissinger
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ― Seneca
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ― Gloria Steinem
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own. ― Joss Whedon
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. ― Arabic Proverbs
One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy. ― Ice
Power is the byproduct of understanding. ― Jacob Bronowski
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. ― Harold MacMillan
Calmness is the cradle of power. ― J.G. Holland
The greatest power is often simple patience. ― E. Joseph Cossman
Names have power. ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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. Abdelnour
The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it. ― Kit Harington
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. ― Henrik Ibsen
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ― Honore de Balzac
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. ― Samuel Johnson
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post ― 9/11 World
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. ― Baltasar Gracian
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. ― George Orwell
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. ― Malcolm X
You see what power is holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them. ― Amy Tan
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
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. ― Margaret Thatcher
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
Do the thing and you will have the power. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. ― Adlai Stevenson I
Don’t trust children with edge tools. Don’t trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. ― Oskar Shindler
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. ― Jonathan Swift
If you can abuse your power, you have too much. ― Marty Rubin
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ― Mahatma Gandhi
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. ― Emily Dickinson
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
The measure of a man is what he does with power. ― Plato
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. ― Frank Herbert
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. ― Tao Te Ching
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
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. ― Margaret Thatcher
Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. ― Horacio Castellanos Moya
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ― Edmund Burke
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. ― Oskar Shindler
It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. ― Henrik Ibsen
What a curious power words have. ― Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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
