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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.