Power Quotes

• Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Positive, Uplifting, Buddhist

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.180, Harmony

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

  Jonathan Swift

  Blessed, Blessing, Literature

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• Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.

  Marilyn Frye

  Differences, Access

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• Facing your fears robs them of their power.

  Mark Burnett

  Inspirational, Strength, Fear

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

  Pat Heim

  Done, Ability, Things Done

  Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.117, Penguin

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  Yehuda Berg

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, Success, Future

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• The power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Strength, Time, Powerful

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• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Philosophical, Responsibility

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• Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

  Charles I of England

  Kings, Voting, Mind

  "Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". P. 76, 1989.

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Respect, Knowledge

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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• True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Politics, Velvet

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Secret Love, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Learning, Believe In Yourself

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• The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  World, Arbitrary, Possession

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1856). “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy”, p.115

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  Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

  Alice Walker

  Leadership, Peace, Powerful

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.127, Rutgers University Press

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