961 private quotes tagged power

“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” — Mike Ditka

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“Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.” — Alice Walker

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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.” — Theodore White

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“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.” — Walter Scott

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“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.” — Michael Jackson

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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” — Mary Pickford

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“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.” — Fernando Flores

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“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.” — Norman Thomas

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“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving

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“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.” — Wole Soyinka

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“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.” — Muqtada al Sadr

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“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.” — John Ruskin

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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” — Robert Burton

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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.” — Milan Kundera

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“There is no limit to the power of loving.” — John Morton

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“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.” — Theodor Adorno

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“There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.” — John Mayer

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“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.” — Theodore Dreiser

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“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” — William Wordsworth

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