Power
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.
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.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
Prayer is man's greatest power!
I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
