Dominating Quotes

• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Spirit, Determined

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.76, Tuttle Publishing

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• The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

  Tacitus

  Passion, Heart, Lust

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• It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Mind, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.147, Penguin

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• The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Empowering, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 23, 2016

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• Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Mind, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.46, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Lying, Acceptance

  1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

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• You are the sum total of your choices.

  Wayne Dyer

  Lynching, Choices

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strength, Emotional, Use

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.85, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Understanding, Important

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

  Robert Collier

  Believe, True Or False, Affirmation

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of Power”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Positive, Believe, Mind

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• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Mind, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.24, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Peace, Mind, Weakness

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

  Laozi

  Fighting, Taoism, Quality

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Men, Church

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• In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Average, Individuality

  "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

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• I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Believe, Player

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• You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Alive, Today

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Christ has no place in the life that is not dominated by the Word. - T.B. Joshua

  T. B. Joshua

  Christ

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Home, Doubt

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Business, Home

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• It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Intelligent, Race, Space

  "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak, Introduction (p. ix), 1977.

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• A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Harmony, Persons

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

  Patti LaBelle

  Strong, Kicking It, Prisoner

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 25, 2013

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