If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste… years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just… take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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More quotations tagged with “power”

The secret of all power is—save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

—Joseph Farrell

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

—John Stuart Mill

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

—James Madison

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

—James A. Garfield

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

—Henrik Ibsen

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