961 private quotes tagged power

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” — Aristotle

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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” — John Muir

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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” — Bruce Lee

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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” — Bruce Lee

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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” — Socrates

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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” — Aristotle

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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou

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“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” — Charles Stanley

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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” — John F. Kennedy

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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” — Aristotle

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“The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.” — Mason Cooley

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“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?” — Mason Cooley

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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” — Tony Robbins

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“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.” — Tom Hanks

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