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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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• The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Secret, Want, Waste

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• Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Men, Slave, Born

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• To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Strong, Opportunity, People

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
  [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
  Posse volunt.]

  Juvenal

  Wish, Posse

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• There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

  James Martineau

  Christian, Baptized In, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 456), 1895.

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

  Tacitus

  Guilt, Purpose, Nemo

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Love, Religious, Islamic

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• Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Doe, Force, Frequency

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Persuasive, Rhetoric

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

  Aeschylus

  Leadership, Men, Authority

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• Iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Hands, Iron, Velvet

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Courage, Men

  The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

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• You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.

  Jane Elliott

  Fear, People, Feminist

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Europe

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Strength, God, Religious

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Photography, Nature

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• The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

  Witness Lee

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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