It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Training yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future -
is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
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 intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
Know the power of ritual.
Release your troubles to the cleansing fire of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These men ask for just the same thing,
fairness, and fairness only.
This, so far as in my power,
they, and all others, shall have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- Helen Keller
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