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“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

Belief Power Corruption Sane Power Corrupts True Power Corrupt Power Police Power Power And Corruption Power Corruption

Source: The Postman

“I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.”

Seems President Power Magic Land Position Strange Operations Cabinets

Book:McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union

Source: McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

Humans Power Circumstances Intelligent Self Discipline Hypnosis Beyond Control

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

Men Life Inspirational Matter Motivational Powerful Power Circumstances Creatures Agents Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Free Agents Cognitive Therapy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”

People Social Power Security Duty Injustice Secure Welfare Social Service Social Welfare Two Nations Welfare Programs

Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

“I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”

People Government Political Power Trust Exercise Spring Intelligent Confusion Repeats New Government Public Trust

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”

Liberty Power Highest

Author:John Tillotson

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

Sometimes Wisdom Powerful Power Genius Intelligent Desperation

Book:The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”

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Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion

“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.”

“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.”

Way Inspirational Persons Self God Able Christian Realizing Lord Power Strength Discipline Unique Kingdoms Denial Strongest Self Control Self Discipline Self-denial Power Of Choice

Author:Witness Lee

“But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.”

“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.”

Way Inspirational Feels Purpose Passion Nature Power Inspire Photography Passionate Connected Capture Connecting Conveying Most Inspiring Power Of Nature

Author:Peter Lik

“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.”

World Mind Wells Reading Energy Change Vision Power Awareness Expression Becoming Lenses Changing Your Life Making Changes Personal Power Changing Your Mind

Author:Caroline Myss

“God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.”

Doe God Christian Religion Christianity Power Strength Baby Weakness Catholic Revealing Bishops Babe Newborn Fragility

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.”

Matter States Government Individual Wealth Poor Power Economy Rich Clear Imagine Effects Becoming Economics Income Wealthy Considering Distribution

Book:The Ethics of Redistribution

Source: The Ethics of Redistribution

“Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.”

Term United Power Growing Resources Europe China Russia Administration Fuel Immense

Author:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.”

Thinking Political Choices Culture Force Change Power Design Designer Changing The World Making Changes

Author:Jonathan Barnbrook

“Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.”

Men Way Made Desire Powerful Power Rich Society Human Nature Becoming Wiser Erase

Author:Francois-Noel Babeuf

“Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.”

Long Christian Term Prayer Powerful Power Source Christian Inspirational Long Term Agony Draining Powerful Inspirational

Book:Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”

Matter Able Given Power One Thing Feet Picks Dare Treatment

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.”

Way Want Power Society Awareness Messages Function Critics Caught Philosopher Corporations Faculty Historian Academic Avoiding Scholarship Linguists Social Awareness

Book:Language and Politics

Source: Language and Politics

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.”

Needs Powerful Power Seeking Most Powerful Approval Mystic Independent Thought

Book:Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

Source: Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”

People Inspirational Soul Earth Spirit Force Power Your Soul Ancestor Our Relationship Old People Brutes Environmentalist Brute Force Money Power Disempowerment

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.”

Ifs Trying Persons Motivational Guy Power Performances Self Motivation Controlled Motivated Always Trying Other Guys Get Ahead Hurrying

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”

Men Done Ability Power Greatness Needed Patriotic Application

Book:The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early years, 1817-1849

Source: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early years, 1817-1849

“When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.”

Imagination Worry Power Imagine Worst Positive Positive Thinking Negative Positivity Excited Positive Attitude Immense Negativity Positively Power Of Positive Thinking Positive Inspirational Power Of Imagination Imagining The Worst

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.”

Church Religious Money Power Worship Catholic Actresses Cult Deities Catholic Church Abusive Money And Power

Author:Katie Holmes

“An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Doe Would Be Running Parent Power Psychology Influence Method Parenting Inevitable Rely Rebel Adolescence Raising Children Infancy Teaching Children

Author:Thomas Gordon

“Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.”

Facts Care Political Literature Power Feminist Don't Care I Don't Care Poetry Is Interpretation

Author:Diane Wakoski

“If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.”

People Ifs Inspirational Wish Power Influence Discipline Entrepreneur Faithful Employee Interaction Faithfulness Interacting Being Faithful Social Interaction Distributors Interacting With Others

Author:Jim Rohn

“Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.”

“We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.”

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Ifs States America Nations Church Secret Power Heard Greatness Genius Goodness Be Good Cease Flames Righteousness Righteous Great American Pulpit Democracy In America

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.”

Soul God Facts Truth Christian Passion Three Church Emotion Power Records Fire Morality Holy Thousand Safety Conversion Enthusiasm Live Life Heat Fifty Ritual Owing Pentecost Kindling

Author:Samuel Chadwick

“Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.”

Inspirational Giving Wisdom Power Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Philosopher Winner Novelists Loser Pretending Humiliate Hater Lyricists

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Ifs Men Way Government Accepting Power Judging Kings Absolutes Pope Presumption Canon Absolute Power Power Corrupts Corrupt Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:Lord Acton

“The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.”

People Made Whole Jesus Christ Church Power Broken Embrace Christian Inspirational Flaws Wholeness Parades Brokenness Flawless Broken Man

Author:Mike Yaconelli

“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.”

Love Heart Light Religious Power God Love Islamic Muslim Sustenance Islamic Wisdom

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.”

Thinking Power Forever Think Of You Messengers

Author:Brenda Ueland

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

Giving Doe Leadership Responsibility Power Wise Privilege Manage Team Building Leadership And Management Top Management Strategic Management Power And Responsibility Privilege And Responsibility

Author:Peter Drucker

“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.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

Today Opportunity Education Knowledge Power Economy Wise Access Advancement Power And Control Knowledge And Power Power Of Knowledge

Book:The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

Source: The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.”

Ifs Needs Doe Business Power Information Products Customers Brands Branding Profitability Suppliers

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“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.”

Matter Eye Lying Choices Opportunity Leadership Power Danger Position Politician Life And Death Career Politicians

Author:Kgalema Motlanthe

“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!”

“In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”

Needs Power Needed Management Lawyer Forty Old Days Handshake

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.”

Art Earth Nature Creativity Power Planets Benefits Harmony Strive Tunes Strife Creativeness Power Of Nature Music Producer

Author:Rick Rubin

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