961 private quotes tagged power

“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” — Horace Mann

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“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.” — Vinoba Bhave

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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” — David Seabury

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“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.” — Oliver Stone

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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” — Eli Whitney

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“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.” — Robert Staughton Lynd

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“Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.” — Donald Trump

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“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.” — Isabel Allende

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“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.” — Julianna Margulies

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“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.” — James Allen

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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.” — Mark Hopkins

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“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.” — Noam Chomsky

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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” — Isabel Allende

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“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” — Susan Sarandon

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“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.” — Emile Coue

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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” — John Steinbeck

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“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.” — Eric Sevareid

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“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles

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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” — Jim Morrison

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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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