Real Power Quotes

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  Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

  Clint Eastwood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

  Clint Eastwood

  Respect, Self, Discipline

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

  JR

  Real, Giving, Dallas

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• Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Real, Power, Men

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

  Livy

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Peace, Real, Fighting

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• This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Habit, Insight

  FaceBook post by Charles Duhigg from Sep 15, 2016

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• Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Hate, Real, Vampire Hunter

  "Fictional character: Henry Sturges". "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", 2012.

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• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, Real, Hate

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Squares, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

  Michael Scott

  Real, World, Modern

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

  Debbie Macomber

  Real, Generosity, Giving

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives rise to numerous phenomena. This power has, however, neither goal nor intention. It can do only what it does; it is only a set of acting causes, not a particular being. I was the first to establish this truth at a time when life was still thought to be a principle, an archeia, a being of some sort.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Life, Real, Science

  "Lamarck, the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology". Book by Madeleine Barthélemy Madaule, p. 102, 1982.

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Real, Light

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• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Power, Needs

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself". Book by Steve Chandler, 2004.

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• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Heart, Blood

  "Moab Is My Washpot". Book by Stephen Fry, 1997.

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• As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Men, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Real, Knowing, Can Do

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• Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

  Bell Hooks

  Dream, Real, Commitment

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