961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.” — A. J. P. Taylor

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“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.” — Andrew Young

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“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.” — C. Wright Mills

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“Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.” — Paul Harris

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“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.” — William Pitt

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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.” — Georg Buchner

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“The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.” — Anita Hill

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“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.” — Carolyn Heilbrun

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“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.” — Agnes de Mille

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“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” — John Adams

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“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.” — Clint Eastwood

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“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” — Og Mandino

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“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

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“Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.” — Don DeLillo

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“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” — Barney Frank

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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus

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