#power

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Why should the lord of ten thousand chariots act lightly in public? If you act lightly, you lose your root. If you are restless, you lose your power.

Nothing in the world is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.

Are you a new strength and a new right? A first movement? A self-rolling wheel? Can you also compel stars to revolve around you?

It is the quietest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world.

He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.

The more you give up control, the more power you have. Real power is the power of yielding, like water.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The spirit of the depths from time immemorial and for all the future possesses a greater power than the spirit of this time.

To know oneself is to understand the boundaries of one's power and the depth of one's responsibility.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Give up the futile fight against the inevitable; yield to reality and find your power within it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Self-love is the love of self, and of all things for self; it makes men idolaters of themselves, and tyrants to others if fortune gives them the power.

We are more easily governed through our vices than through our virtues.

All power belongs to the calm mind.

The dawn arrives quietly, without fanfare, yet transforms the world.

Live without masks, and you will live with power.

A single word of truth outweighs oceans of deceit.

Surrender all burdens to the infinite power within.

Inner peace is the foundation of all authentic power.

The light within is the master of all circumstance.

A well-administered treasury is the backbone of state power.

A truthful word spoken with courage dissolves all deceit.

The power of focused austerity (*Tapas*) enables the wise to achieve whatever they resolve. (Kural 265)

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.