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You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power — Wallace D. Wattles
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company. — Hannah Arendt
You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men. — Sharon Stone
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the… — Sri Aurobindo
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but… — Marianne Williamson
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in… — Marianne Williamson
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's… — Frederick William Faber
It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed. — Rick Santorum
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply… — Parker J. Palmer
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest… — D. H. Lawrence
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will… — James Madison
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by… — James Madison
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a… — Herbert Croly
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we… — Rajneesh
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away… — Rajneesh
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us… — Baron de Montesquieu
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He… — John Owen
When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have… — Muhammad Ali
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a… — Rajneesh
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. — Alison Jolly
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc

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