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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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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“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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“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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“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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

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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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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” — Peace Pilgrim

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

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“Power is the great aphrodisiac.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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