Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we read more

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things read more

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),

Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),