Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

17.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

18.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

19.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

21.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

23.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

27.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

28.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

29.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

31.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

32.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

33.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

36.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

37.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

38.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

39.

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

Friedman, Milton

40.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

41.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

42.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

43.

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

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

47.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

48.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

49.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

50.

The point of power is always in the present moment.