961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“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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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” — Richard Bach

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“In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” — Ken Blanchard

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“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.” — John Adams

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“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.” — Alexander Hamilton

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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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“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” — Peter Drucker

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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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“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” — Huey Newton

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

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“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.” — Clint Eastwood

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“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” — Calvin Coolidge

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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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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James A. Baldwin

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“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.” — Billy Graham

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“What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” — Alexander Graham Bell

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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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“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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“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

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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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