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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." Kareem Abdul-Jabar 3.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." Geoffrey F. Abert 4.5889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 4.6389 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Douglas Noel Adams 4.5366 average rating Rate this Quote
"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." Henry Brooks Adams 3.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"A friend in power is a friend lost." Henry Brooks Adams 4.3571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Quincy Adams 4.8710 average rating Rate this Quote
"I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles." Scott Adams 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." William Adams 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." William Adams 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." William Adams 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." Æschylus 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways." Akhenaton 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." Alcaeus 4.0833 average rating Rate this Quote
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." Muhammad Ali 4.8372 average rating Rate this Quote
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." Woody Allen 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you don't control your mind, someone else will." John Allston 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak." Eric Ambler 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If everything's under control, you're going too slow." Mario Andretti 4.7826 average rating Rate this Quote
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." Barbara De Angelis 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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