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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

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• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Life, Failure, Power, Win

• We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice.

  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

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• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

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• Reshape yourself through the power of your will... Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

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• "Energy: The capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power."

  ~ American Heritage Dictionary quotes

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• A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

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• It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power