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 | "... power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action
or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into
reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power:
Transformative leadership." | |
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Warren G. Bennis
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| "A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power,
but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only
what you have but what the enemy thinks you have." | |
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Saul David Alinsky
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| "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you
are, you aren"t." | |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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| "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our
power." | |
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René Descartes
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| "He who has his thumb on the purse has the power." | |
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Otto von Bismarck
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| "Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal
responsibility." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared
to kill." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "I don"t think of power in terms of conquering people. I don"t think
of it as something to be imposed. That kind of power seldom lasts. But you
should realize that power is a constant in the world. You shape your
perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do,
or you respond to someone else"s plan for you. To me, ultimate power is
the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for
others in the process. Power is the ability to change your life, to shape
your perceptions, to make things work for you and not against you. Real
power is shared, not imposed. It"s the ability to define human needs and
to fulfill them?both your needs and the needs of the people you care
about. It"s the ability to direct your own personal kingdom?your own
thought processes, your own behavior?so you produce the precise results
you desire." | |
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Anthony (Tony) Robbins
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| "I want what I want when I want it." | |
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Henry Martyn Blossom
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| "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness
make you pure?" | |
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Harry Shearer
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| "If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and
5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet." | |
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William Lyon Phelps
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| "If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but
if not, you have infinite power against you." | |
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Charles Gordon
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| "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret
reveries that you were born to control affairs." | |
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Andrew Carnegie
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| "In the beginner"s mind there are many possibilities, but in the
expert"s mind there are few." | |
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Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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| "In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back
of the tiger ended up inside." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Let not thy Will roar, when thy Power can but whisper." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Men should think twice before making widowhood women"s only path to
power." | |
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Gloria Steinem
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| "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have
the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the
guilt." | |
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Anna Sewell
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| "Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your
energies on a limited set of targets." | |
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Nido Qubein
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| "Of newspaper barons: Power without responsibility - the prerogative
of the harlot throughout the ages." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "Of Women: I do not wish them to have power over men; but over
themselves." | |
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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| "PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary
is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never
exert it." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret,
especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly
dangerous." | |
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William Proxmire
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| "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." | |
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John Lehman
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| "Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must
be taken from them." | |
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James F. Byrnes
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| "Power invariably means both responsibility and danger." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking
true." | |
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Honoré de Balzac
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| "Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the
aspect of power." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence
this side of the womb." | |
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Nadine Gordimer
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| "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It
is the same story." | |
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Lincoln Steffens
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| "Power never takes a step back ? only in the face of more
power." | |
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Malcolm X
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| "Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it
touches." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." | |
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Charles Andre Joseph Mario de Gaulle
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| "The culminating point of administration is to know well how much
power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be
in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." | |
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James Madison
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| "The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is
sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting ?
it has been found demanding, and not tried." | |
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John Baillie
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| "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside
out, starting with himself." | |
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Blaine Lee
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| "The measure of a man is what he does with power." | |
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Pittacus
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| "The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of
the general is not a bigger tent, but command." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of
reason." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over
himself." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or
collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their
number, is self-protection." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power.
You just take it." | |
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Roseanne Barr
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| "The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the
most dangerous human attribute." | |
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John P. Grier
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| "The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not
be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people." | |
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Jon Wynne-Tyson
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| "There is no knowledge that is not power." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not
organized rivalries, but an organized peace." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and
do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it
honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy." | |
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Susan Polis Schutz
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| "Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an
enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves." | |
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Aesop
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| "To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be
effective." | |
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Liz Smith
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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." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference
how much you are rewarded or how much you have." | |
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Oprah Winfrey
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| "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it;
and this I know, my lords: that where laws end, tyranny begins." | |
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William Pitt, "the Elder Pitt"
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| "Use power to curb power." | |
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Proverb
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| "Washing one"s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." | |
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Paulo Freire
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| "We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it
becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it." | |
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Max Lerner
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| "We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it
impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships,
are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect
what we cherish." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it
becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he
knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he
finds it." | |
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Alexander Graham Bell
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| "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized
into powerlessness." | |
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Erica Jong
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