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«Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.»
Author: Anne O'Hare McCormick
| About:
Power
«Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.»
«Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Caring,
Compliments,
Kindness,
Power,
Smile
| Keywords:
Act of, all of, caring, compliment, complimented, ear, honest, listening, potential, potentials, smallest, the smallest, touch, underestimate, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating
«To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.»
Author: Phillip Brooks
| About:
Power,
Work
| Keywords:
Good Work, strengthen, take hold, take hold of, well-done
«Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.»
«Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins»
Author: William Pitt the younger
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
apt, corrupt, lords, unlimited
«Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.»
«To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.»
«To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.»
«Use power to curb power»
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