Rabindranath Tagore Quotes, Power Quotes, Night Quotes

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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