Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 104
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.
Steven Pressfield
Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark, acted unconstitutionally. And but for the actions of Edward Snowden, we would still be in a very dark place.
Anthony Romero
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.
When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong.
In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain;
more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.
Carole Bouquet
Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.
No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.
Richard G. Scott
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
Rebecca MacKinnon
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”
Miyamoto Musashi
Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.
Melissa Etheridge
To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.
Joseph Stalin
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
Patricia Cornwell