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If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay — David Foster Wallace

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself. — Deborah Feldman

I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don't care what others think of you. — Brandon Sanderson

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings. — Melody Beattie

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. — Hermann Hesse

Real power comes by empowering others. — Denis Waitley

Lack of forgiveness gives others power over us. Withholding forgiveness simply allows another person to have control over our well-being. — Sue Patton Thoele

We should use all the tools the gods gave us," Juliette said. "Except for the one you wield, this power to make others fear. — Hugh Howey

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love. — Seth Adam Smith

America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. — Anais Nin

The strong will always rule the weak. — A.J. Darkholme

Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. — Beth Revis

The desire to have the power over others and dominate them arises basically from the negative thoughts that you have inside you. — Stephen Richards

Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others. — Zaman Ali

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. — Sam Harris

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. — Alan Cohen

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. — William Hazlitt

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it. — Phyllis Bottome

For an immortal life, don't look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others. — Debasish Mridha

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. — Francis Bacon

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. — Frank Herbert

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others. — Terry Teachout

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. — Sir Fulke Greville

Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there. — Brandon Mull

The greatest creative power you have on earth ... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle. — Anne Rice

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others. — Mary Parker Follett

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. — Jasmine Guy

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. — Woodrow Wilson

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants. — John Lancaster Spalding

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others. — Peter Block

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. — Hans Morgenthau

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? — Francois Rabelais

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. — Edward Abbey

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. — Barbara Tuchman

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both. — Lee Roberson

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves. — Gloria Feldt

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. — Thomas Jefferson

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls. — Stanley Bing

People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others. — Bryant McGill

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised. — George Davis Herron

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself. — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. — John Charles Polanyi

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor. — Voltaire

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing. — Tim Tharp

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress. — Matthew Henry

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will. — John Hoeven

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. — Lin Yutang

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others. — Seneca.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others. — Bryant McGill

The ultimate use of power is to empower others. — William Glasser

Let your power to simply "BE" inspire others to do the same. — Shannon Tanner

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go. — Alan Cohen

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. — Joy Harjo

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us. — Robert Burns

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself ... — Harry Browne

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. — Rajneesh

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others. — Erwin McManus

A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget. — A.J. Darkholme

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them. — Sakyong Mipham

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love. — Nachman Of Breslov

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others. — Elisabeth Elliot

Power is the ability to do good things for others. — Brooke Astor

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. — Milan Kundera

In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for. — Ben Tolosa

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others. — Barbara De Angelis

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence. — Paulo Coelho

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others. — Ed Buckner

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say. — Lord Chesterfield

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. — Alexander The Great

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. — Eckhart Tolle

So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength. — Amy Lee Peine

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others. — Elizabeth Moon

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain

A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others. — Sandranil Biswas

If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others. — Salman Rushdie

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power. — Victoria Osteen

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us. — Chinelo Okparanta

There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict, — Umberto Eco

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own — Kobe Bryant