961 private quotes tagged power

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix

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

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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” — Robert Burton

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

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“You can't trust anybody with power.” — Newt Gingrich

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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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“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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“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.” — James A. Baldwin

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“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.” — Herbert Hoover

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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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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr

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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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“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.” — Noam Chomsky

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

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“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.” — Marianne Williamson

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

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

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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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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.” — Wole Soyinka

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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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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong

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“Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.” — Nelson Rockefeller

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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” — Honore de Balzac

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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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