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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.

    Power   Thinking   Enemy  
    Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage
  • Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

  • Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

    Powerful   Men   World  
  • I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

    Power   Land   Magic  
    George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.82, Digital Scanning Inc
  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

    Faith   Powerful   Fear  
  • The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

    Future   Power   Shapes  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

  • One never paints violently enough.

    Power   Painting   Enough  
  • The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

    Power   Men  
  • I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

    Power   Age   Politics  
    William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press
  • We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

    War   Power   Benefits  
    Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4
  • We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

    Military   Army   Power  
  • High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  • Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

    Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

    Education   Time   Moving  
  • If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

    Life   Teacher   Teaching  
  • Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

    Winning   Power   Giving  
  • Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

  • 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.

    Leadership   Wise   Power  
    Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2012). “Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”
  • If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

    Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press
  • Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

    Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin
  • Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

  • Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

    Power   Cynical   Belief  
    "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.
  • Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

    Power   Thinking   Focus  
  • God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

  • All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  • True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

  • Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

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