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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
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
— Seth Adam Smith
The strong will always rule the weak.
— A.J. Darkholme
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
