Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 35
A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
Croft M. Pentz
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
Jane Fonda
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!
I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.
Leona Lewis
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Ralph Inge
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
Nothing happens until something moves.
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
“Silence is the warrior’s art — and meditation is his sword. With it, you’ll cut through your illusions.”
Dan Millman
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.
Fred Rogers
The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.
Jim Tully
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
Diane von Furstenberg