True Power Quotes

• True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Path, Standing, Walking

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• True power is the power to empower others.

  Rhymefest

  Empowering

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Courage, Mean

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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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• Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.

  James A. Owen

  Fall, Flames, Goal

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Struggle, Self, Trying

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• True Power is within, and it is available now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awareness, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library

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• True power is stillness within motion.

  Laozi

  Stillness

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• Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

  Euripides

  Mistake, Men, Force

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• True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

  Joy Harjo

  Inspirational, Pain, Suffering Of Others

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• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strength, Spiritual, Weakness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Attachment, Knowing, Want

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• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Power, Corruption, Favourite

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Life, Purpose, Awakening

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Power, Belief, Corruption

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, Peace, Learning

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books

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• Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.272, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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• True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

  Robert Byrd

  Lying, America, Inspire

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• The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.

  Seth

  Reality, Expectations, Imagination

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• We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Greed, Forget, Abundance

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.103, Penguin

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