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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx
“Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.”
Winston Churchill
“Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.”
Aristotle
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
Voltaire
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
Oprah Winfrey
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
C.S. Lewis
