961 private quotes tagged power

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

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“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.” — John Adams

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“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.” — Theodore Dreiser

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

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“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” — Ayrton Senna

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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 most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” — Alice Walker

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“You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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“When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.” — Rene Descartes

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

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“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“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.” — Edward de Bono

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

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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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“Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.” — Denis Diderot

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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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“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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“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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“Character is power.” — Booker T. Washington

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