Definition of Power : A chronology

500 B.C.

Tao Te Ching (Classic text) - Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Confucious (philosopher) - Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. [which is power]

30 B.C.

Horace (poet) - Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

1830 A.D.

Honoré de Balzac (Writer) - Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

1850 A.D.

Benjamin Disraeli (politician) - Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

1900 A.D.

Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist) - Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

1930 A.D.

Harry Emerson Fosdick (religious teacher) - Our power is not so much in us as through us.

1970 A.D.

Sathya Sai Baba (religious teacher) - Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

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Sethu Laxmi Nair said…
hmmmm.....

from mastering the self to self-assurance.

fascinating!
6:33 PM
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4:03 AM
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