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Jai Ganesh

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Power Quotes

Power Quotes

1. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu

2. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke

3. Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon

4. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi

5. Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. - Paul P. Harris

6. The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi

7. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

8. Power is the great aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger

9. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. - Jonathan Swift

10. Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. - Benjamin Disraeli

11. Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal

12. Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

13. Power ought to serve as a check to power. - Montesquieu

14. My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

15. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. - Alvin Toffler

16. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson

17. Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. - John Adams

18. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

19. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. - Benjamin Disraeli

20. The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. - Aung San Suu Kyi

21. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. - William Wordsworth

22. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

23. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. - Ayn Rand

24. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. - James Madison

25. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan

26. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle

27. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey

28. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire

29. The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Plato

30. Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high. - P. V. Sindhu

31. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. - Stephen Covey

32. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. - Julius Caesar

33. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. - Clint Eastwood

34. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. - Muhammad Ali

35. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw

36. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. - Thomas Paine.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.