Personal Power Quotes - Page 5

• No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lazy, Energy, Earth

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• I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Waiting, Balance

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• Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Self, Issues

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• I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Trying, Levels

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• Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Development, Levels

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• The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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• It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Needs

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• Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Attitude, Independent, Men

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.

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• Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Philosophy, Party, Power

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Understanding, Agents, Temples

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• Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Warrior, Hunting

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  Umberto Eco

  Men, Long, Community

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• In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

  Pope Francis

  Selfish, Taken, Men

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• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  Barbara Kruger

  Political, Sound, Term

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

  Vernon Howard

  Mind, Care, Made

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• Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioral and belief changes in order to take the necessary action to produce the results. It's been said that successful people do what others won't, and that if you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right. Both of those statements are true.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Believe, Successful

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Average

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• The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Reason

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• Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Shapes

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• Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Mindfulness

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• Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Poetic

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