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• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

  Edward Abbey

  Anarchy, Worst, Dangerous

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

  Coretta Scott King

  Strong, Mistake, Decision

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Men, People, Greed

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• Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Used, Diabolical

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1207, Manonmani Publishers

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• The object of power is power.

  George Orwell

  Objects

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Heart, Wine

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Transition, Shooting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Positive, Strength, Yoga

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• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Positive, Leadership, Knowledge

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greed

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• Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

  Dean Ornish

  Real, Self Worth, Given

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery”, p.111, Ivy Books

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• Power tires only those who do not have it.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Tire

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  Abigail Adams

  Wisdom, Men, Giving

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Pain, Real, Pleasure

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• A word after a word after a word is power.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "Spelling". Poem by Margaret Atwood, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

  Bill Vaughan

  Responsibility, Public Good

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• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Politics, Constitution

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.88, Fireship Press

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Leadership, Sports, Bad Ass

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life Changing, Epic, Silence

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• Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

  Ishida Mitsunari

  Wisdom, Respect, Winning

  "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.

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• Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Powerful, Want Something

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• 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

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Memories, Powerful, Men

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