961 private quotes tagged power

“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.” — Jim Carrey

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“The way to have power is to take it.” — Boss Tweed

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“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” — Bill O'Reilly

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“Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.” — Allen Klein

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“Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.” — Jill Scott

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“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” — Robert Anthony

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“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.” — Bernard Baruch

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“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?” — Orison Swett Marden

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“The only power you have is the word no.” — Frances McDormand

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“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.” — Albert Bandura

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“Power is paradoxical.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.” — Alexis Carrel

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“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.” — Sophie Swetchine

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“America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.” — Adam Schiff

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“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Everett Dirksen

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“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.” — George A. Smith

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“Power ought to serve as a check to power.” — Charles de Secondat

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“The greatest power is not money power, but political power.” — Walter Annenberg

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“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.” — Charles Simmons

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“The law has no power over heroes.” — Charlotte Lennox

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“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” — David Brinkley

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