961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“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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“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.” — Richard J. Daley

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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James

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“Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!” — Greg Anderson

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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” — Alan Cohen

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“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.” — Phillips Brooks

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“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.” — Don DeLillo

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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” — Meryl Streep

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“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.” — Ken Blanchard

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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” — John Henrik Clarke

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“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson

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“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.” — Catherine the Great

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“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.” — Bob Dylan

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“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” — Stephen Covey

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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” — M. Scott Peck

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“Fight the power that be. Fight the power.” — Spike Lee

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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