961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” — Patrick Henry

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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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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“I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.” — Isabel Allende

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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.” — Amy Tan

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“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.” — Billy Sunday

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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” — Eli Whitney

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“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.” — Vinoba Bhave

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“When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.” — Julia Child

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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.” — William Glasser

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

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“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.” — Blaine Lee

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“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.” — Johnny Depp

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“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.” — Malcolm X

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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.” — Thomas Hughes

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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.” — Isabel Allende

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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.” — Milan Kundera

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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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“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.” — Norman Thomas

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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” — Mary Pickford

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