961 private quotes tagged power

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” — Stephen Covey

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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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“Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is; They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.” — Thomas Love Peacock

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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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“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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“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” — Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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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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