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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Banks, Harry F.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Baltasar Gracian

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

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