961 private quotes tagged power

“There is no limit to the power of loving.” — John Morton

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“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.” — Wole Soyinka

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

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

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

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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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“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” — Peter Drucker

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

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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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“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.” — Robert Downey, Jr.

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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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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” — James Allen

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

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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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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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