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A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength. — Jeffrey Archer

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. — Blaise Pascal

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The measure of a man is what he does when he has power. — Pierce Brown

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. — Mary Robinson

The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent. — Brian Vihlen

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man. — Anne Fortier

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

You have power over a powerful man. His love for you gives you the power, though I suspect there are times the two of you fight like cats. — J.D. Robb

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James Baldwin

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power. — Thomas Hobbes

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. — Walter Lippmann

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power — Patrick Rothfuss

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer. — Debasish Mridha

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? — Robert Louis Stevenson

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man. — Ruth Sawyer

You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself — Amari Soul

Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman. — Rebecca Warner

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. — Augustus Toplady

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. — John Adams

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

The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go. — Robert Browning

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J.G. Holland

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I. — Charles James Fox

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. — Philo

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power. — Walter Lippmann

Because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions. — Paulo Coelho

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice — Bertrand Russell

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. — Dominique Sutton

He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. — Anthony Doerr

Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. — David McCullough

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun. — Mason Cooley

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. — Pittacus Lore

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others. — Anne Rice

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power. — John Wanamaker

The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. — Gregory David Roberts

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. — Benjamin Disraeli

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man. — Irene Parlby

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. — Heraclitus

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. — Man Ray

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom — Andrzej Majewski

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. — Method Man

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines. — Charles Lindbergh

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten? — Samuel Butler

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom. — Mark B. Cohen

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish. — Cornelius Vanderbilt

I Prefer Reading Eyes As Eyes Are Very Powerful. It Can Reveal The Ins And Outs of A Man ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship. — Sherwood Anderson

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects. — Joseph Addison

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence — J.F. Kennedy

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — Aldous Huxley

The Word of God gives power, authority and abundant life to a man. — Sunday Adelaja

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. — James Naismith

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. — Edwin Paxton Hood

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. — Steve Maraboli

But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel? — Milan Kundera

You can always tell the success or power of a man or woman by the size of the pack of dogs nipping at their heels — Don Bendell

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. — Baruch Spinoza

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious. — Amrita Pritam

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks like a lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The eyes might be the windows to the soul, but a man's hips were his seat of power. — Tiffany Reisz

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. — Mark Twain

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power! — Julieanne O'Connor

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. — Isaac Deutscher

The measure of a man's power is the depth of his mercy. — Christopher Moore

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power. — Elbert Hubbard

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. — Joanna Baillie

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender. — Rick Warren

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. — John Galsworthy

There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action. — Richard Wright

I might here find the magic word of power to banish the demon and set me free, so that I should no longer be a man beside myself. — George MacDonald

There is a something in the very tone of the man who has been with Jesus which has more power to touch the heart than the most perfect oratory: — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. — Robin Hobb

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. — Elvis Presley

The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own. — Michael Jones

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

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance! — Dagmar Godowsky

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that. — Susan Estrich

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