Let them hate, so long as they fear.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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

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

What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?

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

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.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

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

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.

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

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.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

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.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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.

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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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.

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

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

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

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

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

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

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.