Power Quotes
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"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 Antoninus
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"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
-Aristotle
"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
-Aristotle
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."
-Eric Sevareid
-Eric Sevareid
"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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-Woodrow Wilson
"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
-George W. Bush
"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
-Ralph Ellison
"Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
-Saul Alinsky
-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
-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
-David Brinkley
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
-Abigail Adams
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