Gaining Power Quotes

• Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Honor

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Increase, Personal Power, Persons

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• How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Fearless, Overcoming

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• If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Purpose, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fire, People, Use

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• You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt. It doesn't have the vibration or the power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, Vibrations, Copies

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• Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Successful, People, Energy

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• When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Cutting, Guillotine

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• Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, People, Giving

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• Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, People, Pieces

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• It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Draining, Our Lives

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Empowerment, Important

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• Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, People, Pieces

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• There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Problem, Natural

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• Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

  Philip K. Dick

  Order, Life Is, Paradox

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don't give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

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• It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sleep, Keys

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• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Crowds, Gains

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• You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Flower, Ideas

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• American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

  Neil Kinnock

  Government, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Common Sense, Overcoming, Emotion

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• The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Mind, December

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• The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Winter, Forgiving

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