Power

23 quotes.

• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  Plato

• Power is not a means; it is an end.

  George Orwell

• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgement . .

  Leonardo da Vinci

• I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.

  Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the US

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

• Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

  Flower A. Newhouse

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

  Anonymous

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Anonymous

• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

  William Proxmire

• Power is the ability not to have to please.

  Elizabeth Janeway

• Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  J.M. Power

• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Herbert N. Casson

• The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

  Colin Wilson

• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  William Penn

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

  John F. Kennedy

• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

  Maxwell Maltz

• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  Thomas Carlyle

• Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

  Napoleon Hill

• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

  Nido Qubein

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