961 private quotes tagged power

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.” — Tony Robbins

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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” — Tony Robbins

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“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.” — John W. Gardner

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“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.” — Paul Kagame

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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” — Julius Caesar

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“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” — George Orwell

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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” — Thomas Paine

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” — Aristotle

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” — Steven Wright

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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” — John F. Kennedy

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