Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 117
To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon
Mark Strong is an amazing person. I just kind of enjoyed watching him. He is just so calm, dedicated, professional, and an absolute gent as well.
Sophie Cookson
We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
John Claypool
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Lucan
I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.
Bent Larsen
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Octavio Paz
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
Russ Carnahan
It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.
Harriet Lerner
Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.
Eddie Adams
Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.
Robin Lee
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
K'naan
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Clarity breeds mastery.
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.
Paulo Freire
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
