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“I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.”

Made Self Sometimes Powerful Party Power Self Made

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.”

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“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.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.”

Men Self Power Discipline Circumstances Exercise Ideals Faculty Mastery Estates Adjustment Self Mastery

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.”

Self Freedom Power Oneself True Freedom

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

Men Self Desire Loses Liberty Power Strange Power Over Others

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”

Self Choices Freedom Liberty Power Democracy Intellectual Agents Metaphysics

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”

Self Power Politician Hunger Deception Nationalism Self Deception Self Delusion Patriotism And Nationalism Nationalistic

Book:In defence of English cooking

Source: In defence of English cooking

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”

Self Three Leadership Knowledge Power Positive Reverence Mastery Self Control Self Knowledge Sovereign Self Restraint Power And Control Self Power Controlling Power

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”

Inspirational Self Past Peace Power Sea Slave Self Respect Swim Sublime Plunge New Self

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”

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Author:Ralph Ellison

“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.”

Life Inspirational Self Goal Answers Inspiring Powerful Power Positive Positivity Soul Searching Beautiful Life Finding Happiness Positive Inspirational Goals And Objectives Searchers Powerful Inspirational

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.”

Self Use Feelings Action Powerful Acting Power Wonderful Self Help Depression Deserve Exciting Senses Inner Strength Clue Deserving Helplessness Personal Power Paralysis

Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.”

Self Wisdom Motivational Power Roots Self Control Restraint Cautious Will Power Prudent Self Restraint Power And Control Self Power Controlling Power

Book:Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Source: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”

Self Power Clear Self Control Restraint Self Restraint

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.”

“One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.”

People Way Self Matter Whole Use Shows Power Judging Amount Demand Behavior Thinker Betray Scholar Smallest Tenors Scholarly

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

Self Power Courage Recovery Valor

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.”

Self Helping Christianity Power Self Help Offers Absence Granted Power Of God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.”

“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.”

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Author:Witness Lee

“Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.”

Real Self Given Realizing Power Self Worth Real Power

Book:Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery

Source: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery

“Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.”

Self Next Power Genius Appreciate Possessing

Author:Mark Twain

“Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.”

Ifs Needs Kind Self Form Power Exercise Universal Appearance Intoxication

Book:The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power

Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power

“If you are real you risk everything.”

Real Self Power Relationship Strength Self Help Self Improvement Risks Christina Strigas Quotes On People

Author:Christina Strigas