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Module Three |
Reading One: Power and Control |
More Quotes to Treasure- Power and Control
Look at each of these and decide if it contributes to your sense of what discipline in the classroom is about.
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| Power confers the ability of gratifying our desire without the consent of others. - Samuel Johnson | All power has its sphere of activity, beyond which it produces no effect. - Samuel Johnson | ||
| It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary | Willpower is the essential virtue of a fully actualized life | ||
| If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. - Les Brown | You do not lead by hitting people over the head- that's assault, of leadership. - Dwight Eisenhower | ||
| Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all- G. Washington | Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight Eisenhower | ||
| I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. | The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. - Mike Krzyzewski | ||
| The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. - Blaine Lee | No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie | ||
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Teddy Roosevelt |
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton | ||
| By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius | Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | ||
| Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent; it still contracts to a smaller number, till in time it centers in a single person. Thus all the forms of governments instituted among mankind, perpetually tend towards monarchy - Samuel Johnson | Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker | ||
| To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves". - Lao Tzu | Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. - Kenneth Blanchard | He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle | ||
| Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tomas Landry | The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader |
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| Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus | Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw |
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| He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king. - John Milton | The greatest gifts you can give children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley |
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| No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. - William Penn | If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton | ||
| Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction. - Brian Tracy | Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu | ||
| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Seneca | Do the thing and you will have the power. Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel | Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. -- Henri Frederic Amiel | ||
| Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. Harriet Rubin | Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -- Honore De Balzac | ||
| 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. Lao-Tzu | To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. -- Carlos Castaneda | ||
| Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. - Thomas Jefferson | ||
| People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him. - Frederick Douglass |
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| "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. James A. Michener | Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. Rollo May | ||
| The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. - Hannah Arendt | The great strength of a totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler | ||
| ...power can mean one of two things, domination or potency. Far from being identical, these two qualities are mutually exclusive. Impotence, using the term not only with regard to the sexual sphere but to all spheres of human potentialities, results in the sadistic striving for domination; to the extent to which an individual is potent, that is, able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for power. Power, in the sense of domination, is the perversion of potency, just as sexual sadism is the perversion of sexual love. - Erich Fromm |
Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse. - Eric Hoffer | ||
| Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. Rollo May | If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive. - Thomas Sowell | ||
| All punishment is itself evil. Jeremy Bentham | Force is not a remedy . - John Bright |
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. - Hermann Hesse |
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Nietzche | ||
| Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. Tacitus | Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. Rabindranath Tagore | ||
| Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy | Obedience is no mechanical thing, but a natural force of social cohesion, intimately related to the will, even its sublimation - Maria Montessori |