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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.