Personal Power Quotes

• 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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• Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Decision, Moments

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, Giving, Focus

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Decision, Action

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• Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

  Frederick Lenz

  Car, Tools, Purpose

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• There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping Others, Power, Views

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

  Byllye Avery

  Change

  Byllye Avery (1998). “An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women”, Broadway

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• Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.

  Robin Sieger

  Real, Personal Development, Found

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• I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doors, World, Saws

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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Positive, Encouragement, Powerful

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Motivational, Reality, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

  Lev Raphael

  Strength, Mean, Secure

  Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael, Pamela Espeland (1999). “Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem”, p.8, Free Spirit Publishing

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• A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wind, Life Is, Easily Influenced

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• Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Teenager, Kids, Men

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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Powerful, Military

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

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• The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Attitude, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Personal power is the ability to take action.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Power

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• Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Careers, Personality, Achievement

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• Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself. In the same way, we see the effects of wind, but we cannot actually see the wind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wind, Way, Effects

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• Power is emotionless; yet one with personal power will experience more emotions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Emotion

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• We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.

  Emile Coue

  Happiness, Wise, Giving

  Emile Coue (2007). “Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Loving Everything, About Yourself

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• When you are working well with your
  energy, you are also making the best
  expression of your personal power... By
  reading your own energy, by becoming
  aware of the lens through which you see
  your world, you can change your mind and change your life.

  Caroline Myss

  Change, Reading, Power

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