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“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”
“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”
“Business is in itself a power.”
“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.”
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”
“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
“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.”
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”
“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.”
“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.”
“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.”
“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”
“Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.”
“Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.”
“Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.”
“There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.”
“Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”
“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”
“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.”