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"Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open." - Author Unknown NULL
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Author Unknown NULL
"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence." - Author Unknown NULL
"Power coerces, knowledge persuades, love converts." - Author Unknown NULL
"Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. Take time to think, it is the source of power. Take time to play, it is the source of perpetual youth. Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to pray, it is the greatest power on earth. Take time to love and be loved, it is a God-given privilege. Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness. Take time to give, it is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to work, it is the price of success." - Author Unknown NULL
"The fool mistakes power for virtue, acclaim for merit, nonconformity for dangerousness, conviction for truth, revenge for justice, license for liberty, and kindness for weakness." - Author Unknown NULL
"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy." - Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
"To achieve… you have to know what you’re doing, and that’s real power." - Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
"There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts." - Bayard Rustin
"Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power." - Benazir Bhutto
"The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for people." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"All power is a trust - that we re accountable for its exercise." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"I repeat … that all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"The State is a collection of officials… drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and of the power of the bureaucrats." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"When a man lacks discrimination, his will wanders in all directions, after innumerable aims. Those who lack discrimination may quote the letter of the scripture; but they are really denying its inner truth. They are full of worldly desires and hungry for the rewards of heaven. They use beautiful figures of speech; they teach elaborate rituals, which are supposed to obtain pleasure and power for those who practice them. But, actually, they understand nothing except the law of Karma that chains men to rebirth. Those whose discrimination is stolen away by such talk grow deeply attached to pleasure and power. And so they are unable to develop that one-pointed concentration of the will, which leads a man to absorption in God." - Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
"Your sorrow is for nothing. The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead. There never was a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be... That Reality which pervades the universe is indestructible. No one has power to change the Changeless... Death is certain for the born. Rebirth is certain for the dead. You should not grieve for what is unavoidable." - Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
"The power of the world always works in circles and everything tries to be round... The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves." - Black Elk, formallly Heȟáka Sápa NULL
"Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity; to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside." - Blaise Pascal
"The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing." - Blaise Pascal
"The first and last lesson of Yoga is the attitude of mind and heart. The aim of Yoga is to unite mind, body, spirit. The reward of yoga practice is the conversion of physical energy into mind power. The practices give a definite sense of control and raise the levels of consciousness awareness. These practices are not to be done competitively, to exhibit to one's friends, to expand the ego. While each of us, according to our temperament, must find the best mental approach, it should be one of self-surrender. Quiet, but joyful. Concentrated. Never strained. Outer control of the body is a means of regulating the inner functioning." - Blanche DeVries Bernard
"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life." - Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
"Character is power." - Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
"Why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money." - Brenda Ueland
"The most striking defect of our system of government is that it divides political power and thereby conceals political responsibility." - Carl Lotus Becker
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings... Money breeds money, money rules the world." - Carl Sandburg
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of all blessings." - Carl Sandburg
"In the destroyer’s steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven." - Charles Dickens, fully Charles John Huffam Dickens
"The suspense - the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick; the desperate anxiety "to be doing something" to relieve the pain or lessen the danger which we have no power to alleviate; and the sinking of soul which the sad sense of our helplessness produces, what tortures can equal these, and what reflections or efforts can, in the full tide and fever of time, allay them." - Charles Dickens, fully Charles John Huffam Dickens
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard, fully Charles Austin Beard
"Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Power multiplies flatterers, and flatters multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient sources of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, or good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The consideration of the small addition often made by wealth to the happiness of the possessor may check the desire and prevent the insatiability which sometimes attends it... Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defensed of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those she had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite." - Charles Caleb Colton
"To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God." - Charles Caleb Colton
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity but a faculty. Faith is a power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it." -