Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 28
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.
Japan, Germany, South Korea, these are very rich, powerful countries. Saudi Arabia, nothing but money. We Americans protect Saudi Arabia. Why aren't they paying?
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
Thomas Pynchon
“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.”
Steven Pressfield
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
Alan Cohen
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
“It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.”
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.
Joseph J. Romm
You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head
When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.
Goldie
I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.
Satnam Singh Bhamara
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
