Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 131
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
It comes from within.
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
Peter Mullan
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.
Helen Fisher
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleanora Duse
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail Bakunin
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
Tullian Tchividjian
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
Sakyong Mipham
Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.
Jane Fonda
I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.
Roy Blunt
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Sallust
If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.
Ed Speleers
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
Mother Jones
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
Natalie Portman
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
