Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 85

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any \'abuse\' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.
 Monica Lewinsky
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
 Mike Leigh
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
 Katie Holmes
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.
 F.B. Meyer
“The warrior stands, ready to defend, ready to fight for those he serves. He is a warrior of virtue, A knight of conscience. He is who we all wish to be.”
 Anthony Hincks
Motherhood is always an act of courage.
Motherhood is always an act of courage.
 Stacy Schiff
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
 Chris Hayes
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
 Gerald R. Ford
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.
 Lawren Harris
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
 Samuel Eliot Morison
Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy.
 Liza Minnelli
I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
 Bernard Hopkins
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.
One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.
 Christopher Caldwell
Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln
 Demetri Martin