Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 29

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal anduntimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Fish or cut bait.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Loose lips sink ships.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Bad news travels fast.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can''t have it.The minute you don''t want power, you''ll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The painsof power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man''s self.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor goodenough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard,very liable to be broken.

This, too, shall pass.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.