Power flows to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. Elbert Hubbard

• leadership
• power
• responsibility

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln

• character
• adversity
• power

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. Ayn Rand

• happiness
• power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel

• power
• control

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, not whence it came, but who should have it. John Locke

• power
• government

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. Seneca

• moderation
• power
• violence

A good intention clothes itself with power. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• power

There are only two powers in the world - the spirit and the sword; and in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte

• war
• power
• violence

In seasons of tumult and discord, bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. Tacitus

• power
• crisis

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. Francis Bacon

• power

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. Baron Wessenburg

• power
• arrogance

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it. Plato

• power

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison

• power
• government

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. Frederick Douglass

• power
• government

An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win. Paul Graham

• power
• force

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