Top 100 Quotes About Personal Power
#1. Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
Fatos Nano
#3. For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.
Wangari Maathai
#4. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#5. I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#6. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#7. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#8. Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.
Frederick Lenz
#9. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.
John F. Kennedy
#10. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.
Gordon Dahlquist
#11. Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
#12. Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
Frederick Lenz
#13. You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer you can stop thought, the more powerful you are.
Frederick Lenz
#14. If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
Jim Parrack
#15. Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.
Byllye Avery
#16. In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
Carroll Quigley
#17. Garret Sutton's books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#19. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.
David F. Swensen
#20. The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Rebecca West
#21. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#22. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.
Wilhelm Reich
#23. You are a soul. You are a creator. You are an individual, absolutely and positively one of a kind. You are an energetic being of love with enough power inside of you to change this entire world forever.
Stephen Lovegrove
#24. You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it.
Jim Rohn
#25. The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.
Daniel Henninger
#26. Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.
Frederick Lenz
#27. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.
Renae A. Sauter
#28. All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily. Why
Frank Herbert
#29. Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'
Sean Covey
#30. Power is emotionless; yet one with personal power will experience more emotions.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.
Jean Kilbourne
#32. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
Lewis B. Smedes
#33. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Norman Vincent Peale
#34. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.
Steve Maraboli
#35. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.
Kevin W. Pearson
#36. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
Steve Goodier
#37. I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
Rebecca West
#38. The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
Pope John Paul II
#39. The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.
Frederick Lenz
#40. To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
Oprah Winfrey
#41. The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.
Frederick Lenz
#42. I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.
Anna White
#43. To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#44. Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible
it's to dismantle those systems.
Lierre Keith
#45. A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory.
They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
Nikki Rowe
#47. P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency
Ivan Illich
#48. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. We are always - always- in choice.
Patti Digh
#50. You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.
Deepak Chopra
#52. Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#53. When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain
#54. Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.
Regina Cates
#55. Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy
Margaret Atwood
#56. To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.
Jonathan Emord
#57. As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#58. Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be ...
Marianne Williamson
#59. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.
Ashley Judd
#60. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#61. Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it is nothing more than a thin coat of sacred paint slapped over politics and the secular lust for power.
Steven Erikson
#62. Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.
Steve Goodier
#63. In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.
Lujan Matus
#64. I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.
Ralph De La Vega
#65. Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.
Bill Plotkin
#66. One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#67. We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.
Frederick Lenz
#69. 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.
Caroline Myss
#70. In my life, I have learned to accept personal responsibility for my circumstances and that acceptance has given me the power to change them."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#71. Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
Michel O'Brien
#72. Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I want to repent of my sins and turn and follow You. I believe You died for my sins and rose again victorious over the power of sin and death, and I want to accept You as my personal Savior. Come into my life, Lord Jesus, and help me obey You from this day forward. Amen.
Elizabeth George
#75. Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.
Elizabeth Dole
#76. As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.
Donna Lynn Hope
#77. The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.
Thomas Moore
#79. Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.
Jerry I. Porras
#80. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#81. Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.
Michael B. Jordan
#82. Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.
Lev Raphael
#83. Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.
Frederick Lenz
#84. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.
Louise Wilder
#85. There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes
#86. If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.
Frederick Lenz
#87. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
Anita Roddick
#88. True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
Eric Liu
#89. Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#92. All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.
Mark Hopkins
#93. Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#94. It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.
Carlos Castaneda
#95. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.
Ilchi Lee
#96. Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power.
Lujan Matus
#97. In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages.
Donald Maass
#98. The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#99. The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.
Frederick Lenz
#100. There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.
Frederick Lenz
