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Power is about influence and control

• Power: The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events.  Oxford Dictionary
• Power: Ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.  Dictionary.com
• Power: The possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy.  Dictionary.com
• Power: Possession of control, authority, or influence over others. Merriam Webster
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Power is the potency to act and accomplish something

• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. Stephen Covey
• When I care 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
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Power is the ability to do good things for others

• Power has only one duty — to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli
• Power is the ability to do good things for others. Brooke Astor
• Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself. Tony Robbins
• Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. George Bush
• She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either– a purely human one. Cassandra Clare
• The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. Joseph Campbell
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Power is the effective use of energy

• Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it. Germaine Greer
• Energy: The capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power. American Heritage
• A man of restraint attains unfathomable powers by means of preservation and conservation of energy. He does not waste his energy in seeking sensual pleasures. Sam Veda
• The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
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True power is not about authority

• In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority.  In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation. Parker J. Palmer

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True power is not about control

• Power isn’t control at all–power is strength and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his or her strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis
• There is an almost irresistible urge to prove our power and worth through comparison. We view power as power over others.  The life of Gandhi offers a glimpse of an alternative philosophy.  A different use of power.    Thinking about power makes us apprehensive.  Power corrupts, power is violence.  We forget the difference between power used to manipulate others and power used to empower others.     Power is a neutral force; we control the quality of its use. People who feel their own life force, their internal power, have no need for control over others. Jennifer James
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The greatest power is the power you have over yourself

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Tao te Ching
• Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
• I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft
• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca
• Reshape yourself through the power of your will. Those who have conquered themselves live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame. Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita
• Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. James Russell Lowell
• The power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind. I will exercise it daily when I need the urge to action for any purpose, and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily. Bruce Lee
• Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power. Horace Mann
• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel
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There is great power within us

• All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours. C Haanel
• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda
• And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that’s in the world. Michael Beckwith
• Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding. Eileen Caddy
• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Orison Swett Marden
• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers, powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing, forces that would revolutionise his life if roused and put into action. Orison Swett
• Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us. Paulo Coelho
• Every one’s got it in him, if he’ll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There’s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. Charles M. Schwab
• I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that’s greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure. Michael Beckwith
• It is within the power of every man to become great. Wallace D. Wattles
• You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. Darwin P. Kingsley
• Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you. Steve Maraboli
• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and it is available to you now. Eckhart Tolle
• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise person. Euripides
• The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Paul Brunton
• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you as soon as you can change your beliefs. Maxwell Maltz
• Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. Roger McDonald
• Nothing external to you has any power over you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To be alive is power, existing in itself, without a further function, omnipotence enough. Emily Dickinson
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We use only a fraction of our power

• Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. James A. Garfield
• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. William James
• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him or her which the incitements of that day do not call forth.  Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half- awake.  It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep.  The human individual usually lives far within his or her limits.  William James
• No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. James Cash Penney
• You have enormous untapped power you’ll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second. William James

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You have the power to transform yourself and your life

• Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world. Ericka Huggins
• The moment I decide to change my life, I awaken the power to transform the impossible into the possible. I am what my heart chooses. Darren R. Weissman
• Truly, the greatest power you have in this world is the power of your own self- transformation. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life. Steve Maraboli
• Every one of us has the power to create in our lives whatever it is that we choose to experience. Clare Wilde
• Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Power includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. Stephen Covey
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Know your power…

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. Mark Rutherford

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… and use it

• That power is in vain which is never in use. Benjamin Whichcote
• What kind of power was it if it would never be used? Chinua Achebe
• True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. John W. Gardner

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Focus on your power

• Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses…on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer
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Celebrate your personal power

• Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.  Tony Robbins

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Have confidence in your power

• Self-confidence is the power that makes you dare, try and do. Remez Sasson
• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peal
• You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. Yogi Bhajan
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Get in touch with your powerful self

• 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. Susan Jeffers

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Don’t give power to negativity

• Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Shirley MacLaine
• The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire
• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Honore de Balzac
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Don’t give power to your fear

• Whatever you fear most has no power–it is your fear that has the power. Oprah Winfrey
• He who fears something gives it power over him. Moorish Proverb
• Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus
• No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Cicero
• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke
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Reclaim your power by facing your fear

• But every time we do that which we fear, we take back the power that fear has stolen from us – for on the other side of our fears lives our strength. Every time we step into the discomfort of growth and progress, we become more free. The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. Robin Sharma
• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison
• The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. Robin Sharma

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The power of love

• A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self- discovery, of awakening. Kenny Loggins
• Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power. Gary Zukav
• It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton
• Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world. Ericka Huggins
• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn’t surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart. Jim Butcher
• Love is the most powerful, and still the most unknown, energy of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective – life. Ogwo David Emenike
• Loving everything about yourself-even the parts you consider unacceptable-is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing. Christiane Northrup
• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. Mohandas Gandhi
• Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us, flowers. The world changes when we change, the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson
• Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome. Deepak Chopra
• The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original. Tom Morris
• The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Mohandas Gandhi
• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed. Rhonda Byrne
• What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. The Secret
• Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. Carl Jung
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
• You need power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done. Charlie Chaplin
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The power of empathy

• The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. Meryl Streep
• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon
• Empathy is the only human superpower-it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, transcend differences, and provoke political and social change. Elizabeth Thomas
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The power of kindness

• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
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The power of forgiveness

• Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. Catherine Ponder
• Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power. Gary Zukav
• There is power in forgiveness. Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you. Dr Phil McGraw
• The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. Catherine Ponder
• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. Martin Luther King
• Forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule. Lewis B. Smedes
• The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. Catherine Ponder
• There is power in forgiveness… Take your power back from those who have hurt you. Dr Phil McGraw
• Forgiveness is… a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. Corrie ten Boom
• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Lewis B. Smedes
• But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Margaret Atwood
• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. Jackson Brown
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The power of giving

• Giving is the highest expression of power. Vivian Greene
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The power of apology

• Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth. John Kador

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The power of focus

• Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• By starting small, you keep your focus narrowed, and therefore increase your power. Leo Babauta
• Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. James Arthur Ray
• Do the thing and you will have the power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention. This is surrendered action—empowered action. Eckhart
• Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. Orison Swett Marden
• Focus… is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel. James Allen
• Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome. Stephen Richards
• Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Dan Millman
• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley
• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein
• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Tony Robbins
• Success is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel. James Allen
• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. Wilferd Peterson
• When every physical and mental resource is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. Norman Vincent Peale
• The ability to apply your mind steadily and exclusively to one subject at a time is a mark of superior power and essential to really great achievement. Grenville Kleiser
• The irony is that the real power comes when you narrow it. D. Meier
• The smaller the area of focus, the greater the mind’s clarity and power. Brian Johnson
• There is great power in focusing on what you want….. The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: “Person who chases two rabbits catches neither. Robin Sharma
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The power of attention

• Attention is the key to transformation – and full attention also implies acceptance. Attention is like a beam of light – the focused power of your consciousness that transmutes everything into itself. Eckhart Tolle
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The power of choice

• Everything is a choice. This is life’s greatest truth and hardest lesson.  It is a great truth because it reminds us of our power.  Not power over others, but the often untapped power to be ourselves and to live the life we have imagined. Matthew Kelly
• Free choice is the act of pure creation, the signature of God, and your gift, your glory, and your power forever and ever. Neale Donald Walsch
• Our greatest power is the power of choice; our greatest freedom lies in the exercise of our power of choice. William Curtis
• Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. Mollie Marti
• Realise the power of a single choice acted upon immediately and with total conviction. Tony Robbins
• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. Tony Robbins
• With awareness, we have choice, the freedom to choose, free will. It is choice that gives us power. Power which is energy. Energy that allows us to move forward in alignment with our choices. Laura Kangas
• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz
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The power of decision

• What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action. Tony Robbins
• We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner truth or we can base them on reactions to outer circumstances. This power always belongs to us. No one can take it from us. Gail Pursell Elliott
• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen Covey
• A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. Paulo Coelho
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The power of choosing how to respond

• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness. Stephen Covey
• Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey

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The power of imagination

• If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities. Hiroko Sakai
• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not – and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation – in its’ arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. K. Rowling
• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. Albert Einstein
• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. John Ruskin
• The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir
• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. Frank Barron
• The source and center of all man’s creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. Robert Collier
• We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power needed inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. K. Rowling
• We have imaginations. As a result, we have unlimited powers of creativity. Sir Ken Robinson
• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon
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The power of vision

• All I know, is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the ‘want power.’ For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on stage and winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• When I care 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
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The power of knowing what you want

• What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists, and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell
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The power of dreams

• A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. J. R. R. Tolkien
• Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls. Marcus Aurelius
• If you want to access your full range of power, then commit to dreaming about your ideal life. Your subconscious and articulated desires are veins of gold that lead to whatever you want to call prosperity. Danielle LaPorte
• Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph
• As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Toni Morrison
• What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in itJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The power of intention

• Desire and intent are different. Desire has attachment. Intent does not. It’s imperative that we harness the power of our pure intention— independent of the outcomes of our actions. Deepak Chopra
• Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. Deepak Chopra
• Learn to harness the power of intention, and you can create anything you desire. Deepak Chopra
• Let the universe handle the details. Your intentions and desires, when released in the gap, have infinite organizing power. Trust that infinite organizing power of intention to orchestrate all the details for you. Deepak Chopra
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The power of goals

• The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they inspire your creativity and ignite your passion. Tony Robbins
• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley
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The power of action

• Action has magic, grace and power in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Every act of creating is an act of power, an act of hope. Pam Grout
• Power should act and not talk. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Power should answer by action, not by speech. Austin O’Malley
• There is no power greater than right action in the present moment. Yaga Vasistha
• What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action. Tony Robbins
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The power of determination

• Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Charles Simmons
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The power of commitment

• Commitments are things you keep no matter what happens to make them difficult to keep. Commitments are powerful. So be very selective when using them. Steve Chandler
• Do what you say you’re going to do. This is the single most powerful behavior for success. Danielle LaPorte
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The power of teamwork and co-operation

• “We = power” Lorii Myers
• A little boy was having difficulty lifting a heavy stone. His father came along just then. Noting the boy’s failure, he asked, “Are you using all your strength?” “Yes, I am,” the little boy said impatiently. “No, you are not,” the father answered. “I am right here just waiting, and you haven’t asked me to help you.”
• A unifying goal has power only if all groups pull together to make it a reality. Morten Hansen
• Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. Woodrow Wilson
• The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation. Jonathan Haidt
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The power of communication

• I think that being able to communicate with people is power. Oprah Winfrey
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The power of applied knowledge

• In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it. Joseph Badaracco
• Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Lauren
• Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power. Garrison Wynn
• Knowledge is only potential power; the wise application of knowledge is where the true power lies. Napoleon Hill
• Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. Steve Droke
• Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.
• Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon
• Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. Dale Carnegie
• Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves
• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee
• There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter F. Drucker
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The power of self-knowledge

• Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives. Vernon Howard
• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The power of the mind

• Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Lauren
• The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson
• The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. Terri Guillemets
• The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant. Robert Kiyosaki
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The power of intuition

• Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing. Shakti Gawain
• The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. Gisele Bundchen
• To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe. Shakti Gawain
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The power of belief

• Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Tony Robbins
• I recreate my beliefs. Thus, I have the power to recreate my reality. For what I believe, I experience. This is original power. I change beliefs that don’t belong. Like beliefs of need, separateness, scarcity, failure, judgement, conditionality of love, condemnation and superiority. Neale Donald Walsch
• What wonderful power, what a newness of life and of power of expression, is waiting for those who really believe. Ernest Holme
• Whatever I believe within, that will I see without. All power belongs to those who believe. John Kehoe
• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you as soon as you can change your beliefs. Maxwell Maltz
• Power resides only where men believe it resides. George R.R. Martin
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The power of meaning

• The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. Nicholas Black Elk
• Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. Harold Kushner
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The power of ideas

• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Marcel Proust
• After years of telling corporate citizens to ‘trust the system’, many companies must relearn instead to trust their people and encourage them to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Richard Bach
• .. they have the power. Napoleon Hill
• Nothing in the world is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
• There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. James R. Smith
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The power of open-mindedness

• No matter what the illness or addiction or distorted physical expression, its cause is in the mind, and only there can it be healed. The greatest power we’re given by God is the power to change our minds. Marianne Williamson
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The power of questions

• For any question you pose, your brain provides an answer. Always make questions positive, actionable and constructive. Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of your life and uplift your spirit. Questions create answers – even where they seemingly do not exist. Tony Robbins
• Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of your life and uplift your spirit. Questions create answers – even where they seemingly do not exist. Tony Robbins
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The power of passion

• Never underestimate the power of passion. Eve Sawyer
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The power of enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles
• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world, it beats money, power and influence. Henry Chester
• Whenever there is enthusiasm, there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. Eckhart Tolle
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The power of motivation

• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. John W.Foster
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The power of desire

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. Marsha Sinetar
• Desire creates the power. Raymond Hollingwell
• Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. Edgar F. Roberts
• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. Wilferd Peterson
• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Napoleon Hill
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The power of small wins

• A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves. Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach. Charles Duhigg
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The power of positive attitude

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Tom Blandi
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The power of positive thought

• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Bettie Eadie
• If you can abuse your power you have too much. Marty Rubin
• It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. Michael Beckwith
• Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal
• Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power. Charles F. Haanel
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The power of hope

• Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles
• Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. K. Chesterton
• Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. Charles Sawyer
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The power of expectation

• The power of expectation—the kind of expectation that embraces a deep belief that what is expected will actually occur—has long been recognized as a significant mental and emotional force. Herbert Benson
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The power of gratitude

• Gratitude and wonder are two of the most empowering and healing perspectives. Jonathan H. Ellerby
• Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything. Alan Cohen
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The power of words

• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Bettie Eadie
• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. Deepak Chopra
• A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood
• Never underestimate the power of words. You make your world with your words. Dee Rimmer
• Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Miguel Ruiz
• There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings
• We cannot afford to underestimate the importance and power of our words. Jell Olson
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The power of taking responsibility

• Stop blaming others. Take accountability for your own happiness and for your reactions to other people. When you stop blaming others, you will regain your sense of personal power. Richard Carlson
• There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else. Gay & Katie Hendricks
• When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony
• When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power. Gary Zukav
• With great power there must also come great responsibility! Stan Lee
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The power of character

• Character is power. Booker T. Washington
• It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose–not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man–in a word, it is the Man himself. Samuel Smiles
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
• Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power. Sathya Sai Baba
• I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character – not wealth or power or position – is of supreme worth. John Davison Rockefeller
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The power of being yourself

• Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man- made rules that are not founded on principle. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Power is the ability not to have to please. Elizabeth Janeway
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The power of simplicity

• Never overlook the power of simplicity. Robin Sharma
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The power of stillness

• I get in touch with the power of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just be. I take time each day to commune with nature. I will practice non-judgement. Today I shall judge nothing that occurs. Deepak Chopra
• Never forget that there is power in silence and stillness. Stillness is the stepping stone to connecting with the universal source of intelligence that throbs through every living thing. Robin Sharma
• Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth, one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness.  Lao Tzu
• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defence, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. Alison McGhee
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The power of calmness

• Calmness is the cradle of power. G. Holland
• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen
• The power of calm: In matters of the mind, the more mental effort you apply to any given situation, the less will be the result. Richard Carlson
• The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee
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The power of patience

• All human power is a compound of time and patience. Honore De Balzac
• In a contest between patience and power, bet on patience. Samuel Johnson
• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather, it is “timing”; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.  Fulton J. Sheen
• The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. Horace Bushnell
• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
• To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. Vimalia Mcclure
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The power of letting go

• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. Eckhart Tolle
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The power of non-resistance

• Non-resistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is- ness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. Consciousness (spirit) is freed from its imprisonment in form. Eckhart Tolle
• Resisting is obstructing the power of the universe. Eckhart Tolle
• When you antagonize any given situation, you give it power against yourself. But when you offer mental non- resistance the opposition will crumble before you. Alan A. Rowbotham
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The power of surrender

• Surrender doesn’t obstruct power; it enhances it. Marianne Williamson
• Surrender is a powerful force. C. Cast
• Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome. Deepak Chopra
• The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender. William Booth
• Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us, flowers. The world changes when we change, the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson
• Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention. This is surrendered action—empowered action. Eckhart Tolle
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The power of awareness

• When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life. Tara Meyer Robson
• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
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The power of being present in the moment

• The present moment is a powerful goddess. Tasso Goethe
• The present moment is always small in the sense that it is always simple but concealed within it lies the greatest power. Like the atom, it is one of the smallest things yet contains enormous power. Eckhart Tolle
• There is only one time that is important – NOW!! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power. Leo Tolstoy
• There is no power greater than right action in the present moment. Yaga Vasistha
• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life. Eckhart Tolle
• When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. Eckhart Tolle
• You have no future, you have power over this moment only; your future is happening now, and by recognizing this, you will have power over what you don’t have. D., Gary R. McClain
• As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. Eckhart Tolle
• Asking ourselves, ‘Where am I right now?’ gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts. Laura Harvey
• You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs
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The power of spirituality

• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Brené Brown
• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
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The power of science

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. Martin Luther King
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The power of believing in and tapping into a greater power

• All power comes from the Great Mystery. I can draw directly from the great cosmic reservoirs. The Path of Power involves becoming less, not more. Less of me, the ego. More of the Great Mystery. When I quieten my mind and remain in stillness and feel this power, I feel renewed and empowered. To do this is to drink from the living waters. Here is the source of all power. And here too, is my centre – not only mine but the centre of all centres. John Kehoe
• All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer. Bhagavad Gita
• An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own. Donald Curtis
• Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth identity is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self- sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offsprings of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown. F. Hodge
• I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other’s successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. Louise Hay
• The individual who has the most power is the one who has the greatest realization of the Divine Presence, and to whom this means the most as an active principle of his life. Ernest Holmes
• Today I will be open to the process of change. I will trust my Higher Power and believe that the place where I’ll be dropped off is better than the place where I was picked up. I know that change is necessary to take me wherever I need to go. Melody Beattie
• We stand, every day and every night, in the very presence of a power so incomparable as to make the senses reel. And yet, happily, this power–the intelligence behind all the marvels of the summer sky– is a benevolent one. The person who pays atention will hear, deep within his or her soul, a quiet and friendly voice saying:  “This, and so much more also, is yours to share.”  Vernon R. Harris
• Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations.  Everything is God.  Swami Vishnu- Devananda
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The power of faith

• Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.  Norman Vincent Peale
• It’s our faith that activates the power of God. Joel Osteen
• While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation. F. Hodge
• Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome. Deepak Chopra
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The power of potential

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential – for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possibilities. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard
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The power of prayer

• A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. Paulo Coelho
• Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change. James Redfield
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The power to say yes and no

• Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes. Dan Millman
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The power of music

• Music is my higher power. Oliver James
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The power of art

• Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. Harvey Fierstein
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The power of the body to heal itself

• Healing takes time. Despite great advances in medicine, the biggest part of your recovery is attributable to the enormous healing power inside you.  The body heals itself according to its own timetable–anxious thoughts never hasten recuperation.  Criswell Freeman
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The power of beauty

• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Charles Reade
• Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce
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The power of humility

• Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. … They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent. Sanaya Roman
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The power of honesty

• If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon
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The power of humour

• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Clarence Darrow
• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid
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Be aware of those things that weaken your power

• Attention to my ego (when I seek power and control over others or seek approval from others) consumes the greatest amount of energy. Deepak Chopra
• Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding this enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future. The past cannot be changed. The future is shaped by our current thinking. Louise L. Hay
• Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain
• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
• When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony
• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Honore de Balzac
• When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power. Gary Zukav
• When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.  Smith
• When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Tobias Wolff
• Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul. Robin S. Sharma
• You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you’re going to do. You’ve taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you’re going wherever the drug world takes you. Anthony Kiedis
• Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus
• No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Cicero
• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke

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Beware of the abuse of power over others …

• Absolute power was not meant for man. William E. Channing
• An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty. Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
• And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. E.J. Patten
• Many have turned an eager ear to the siren call of power–and found themselves drowning instead. Roy Thomas & Clara Noto
• One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. Frank Herbert
• Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Paolo Bacigalupi
• No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Caleb Colton
• Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who … have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. K. Rowling
• Power deludes the ones who wield it. Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
• Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Edmund Burke
• Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. Horacio Castellanos Moya
• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. Charles Caleb Colton
• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke
• The spell of power never quite releases its hold. Isaac Asimov
• The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
• We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power. Frank Herbert

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… for power can corrupt…

• It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Aung San Suu Kyi
• 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 attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. Frank Herbert
• Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Frank Herbert
• Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
• Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable. Chinua Achebe
• Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality … and fall. Frank Herbert
• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.  Frank Herbert

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…but then so can weakness

• It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.  Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. Eric Hoffer
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Power must be accompanied by wisdom and conscience

• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson
• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. Plato
• The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. General Omar Bradley
• Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time. Greg Hamerton
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The measure of a man is what he does with power

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
• Nothing unmasks a man like his use of power. Elbert Hubbard
• The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.  Stewart Udall

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Power and sex

• Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. Oscar Wilde
• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger
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Power and politics

• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.  Aldous Huxley
• If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.  Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth. Paul Krugman
• Politics is the art of government
• The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.  Lyman Bryson
• When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.  Alston Chase
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Power and wealth

• We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power. Frank Herbert
• Wealth was the short beer of existence. Power was champagne. Stephen King
• Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible. George Clason
• What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! James Otis
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• All I want is a warm bed and a kind word, and unlimited power.  Ashleigh Brilliant
• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Charles Reade
• Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce
• Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are you aren’t.  Margaret Thatcher
• Cult: A religion with no political power.   Thomas Wolfe
• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.  J. O’Rourke
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.  Charles Kingsley
• I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?  Ronnie Shakes
• Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.  Robert Heinlein
• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  Brendan Bradley
• Power corrupts; absolute power is kind of neat.  John F. Lehman
• The curve is more powerful than the sword.  Mae West
• The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.  Wilson Mizner
• The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.  Albert Einstein
• The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.  Dave Barry
• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.  George Bernard Shaw
• Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.  Ambrose Bierce
• Woman’s influence is powerful especially when she wants something.  Josh Billings

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