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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

  Laozi

  Giving, Credit, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

  Adam Michnik

  Cowboy, Thinking, World

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• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  Beatrice Wood

  Mother, Unhappy, Charming

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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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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• Democracy is not about one party dominating.

  Ed Townsend

  Party, Democracy

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• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Mean, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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