To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

17.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Norse

20.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

21.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

25.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

26.

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

27.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

30.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

31.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

32.

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

Boseley, Sarah

33.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

34.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

35.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

39.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

41.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

42.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

43.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

44.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

45.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

47.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.