Power Quotes

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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  If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positive, Trust

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greed

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  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

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Strength, Being Strong, Powerful

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• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Stupid, Silly

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin

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• Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Change, Inspiring, Wise

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

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

  Diane Nash

  Responsibility, Realizing, Civil Rights Movement

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• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

  George Orwell

  Intention, 1984 Important, Relinquishing

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.27, Broadway Books

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• I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Character, Thought Provoking

  "The Civil Sphere". Book by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388, 2006.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• 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

  Corruption, Favourite, Said

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• 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.

  Michel Foucault

  Strength, Names, Structure

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.93, Vintage

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• Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Confidence, Powerful, Fear

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Silence, Weapons, Quiet

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• Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

  George Washington

  Money, Office, Abuse

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• We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  World, Force, All Things

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

  Ann Wigmore

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Used, Ends, Instruments

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.394, Transaction Publishers

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• The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Shapes, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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