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When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Mencken, H. L.

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

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