Real Power Quotes

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  Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

  Clint Eastwood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

  Clint Eastwood

  Respect, Self, Discipline

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

  JR

  Real, Giving, Dallas

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• Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Real, Power, Men

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• Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Real, Portraits

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• Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• ... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Real, Character, Doctrine

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.77, 谷月社

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• Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives rise to numerous phenomena. This power has, however, neither goal nor intention. It can do only what it does; it is only a set of acting causes, not a particular being. I was the first to establish this truth at a time when life was still thought to be a principle, an archeia, a being of some sort.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Life, Real, Science

  "Lamarck, the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology". Book by Madeleine Barthélemy Madaule, p. 102, 1982.

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• The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

  Livy

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Power, Thinking

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Mom, He's Doing It Again". Comment at his fan site, whedonesque.com. November, 10 2007.

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• I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

  Diane Keaton

  Real, Motherhood, Men

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

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• Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Heart, Mind

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

  John Bright

  Real, Numbers, Giving

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Feelings, Frequency

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• Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Power, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Real, Law

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• Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.

  Zachary Quinto

  Real, Angel, Years

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• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Real, Light

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