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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power
If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.