Quotes on Power

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. _x000D_ _x000D_ In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.