“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
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“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.”
“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.”
“Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.”
“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.”
“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.”
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”
“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.”
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
“In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”
“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”
“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.”
“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.”