961 private quotes tagged power

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton

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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.” — Phillips Brooks

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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus

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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” — Og Mandino

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“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.” — Don DeLillo

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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” — Richard Bach

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“In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” — Ken Blanchard

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“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.” — John Adams

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“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.” — Theodore Bikel

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“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” — Peter Drucker

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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” — Thomas Huxley

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“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” — Meryl Streep

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“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.” — Clint Eastwood

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“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!” — Greg Anderson

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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” — Alan Cohen

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“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.” — Catherine the Great

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“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.” — Andrew Jackson

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