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SUNDAY ADELAJA If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS The power to become a leader is by learning to have vision,integrity & control.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power never to be corrupted by power or position & easily let it go,is by learning to be a serva...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN A great leader has no value if he cannot lead in the right direction
MICHAEL CHAD BUTCHER You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and contro...
TA-NEHISI COATES Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
PHILIP YANCEY We have no control over it.
NIKKI SMITH I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, wi...
ALICE WALKER What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other me...
C. S. LEWIS Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great le...
SOURCE UNKNOWN It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's live...
CLINT EASTWOOD A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.
HARRY S TRUMAN The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on...
ANUJ SOMANY They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
STEPHEN KING I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must under...
RICHARD CURTIS We need to work on things we have control over. We can't control what the power company does.
BOB STATON I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great l...
FREDRIK NATH He was just a sophomore last year and he was in control. He's just taken it to the next level. He's ...
JOSH POOL Because of the lack of bodies, he turns to grave robbery. There are quite a few shocking moments in ...
BRIAN HAWKINS person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect...
ROBERT GREENE The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's ...
CLINT EASTWOOD Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say ev...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Au...
JOHN J. SWEENEY In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Au...
JOHN SWEENEY It would require Stephen Harper or someone very close to Stephen Harper to make a monumental blunder...
NIK NANOS What we to tell him is basically he has no control over who comes or what goes on outside these whit...
COOPER FARRIS Men use strangulation for control and power over women. Once they learn it, they don't stop.
DR. ELLEN TALIAFERRO As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to...
VINCENT MCNABB Resentment is allowing someone to have power over your life without a remote control.
ANIL GUPTA Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power ove...
STEVE MARABOLI To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...
WILLIAM GLASSER Yash is our big gun. As your No. 1 player, he's going to be a leader whether he likes it or not.
MARK PARRISH It is time to take control of it. That is what we are forcing him to do. ..... He still needs to bec...
DAN MULLEN Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
DAVID LYNCH Love defines itself cos we have no control over it.
OLASOT If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.
MIYA YAMANOUCHI It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of cont...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcom...
CHUCK YEAGER She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES It's an international waterway. We cannot stop it. We cannot control it. It's either a federal gover...
CARLOS RIVERA People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of...
RATAN TATA Want a balloon?
STEPHEN KING You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.
DAVE RAMSEY Like clockwork, the powerful end up dictating, and so everyone is forced to compete for power, which...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE If you get caught up in things over which you have no control, it will adversely
affect those things...
JOHN WOODEN It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO He was noticed. He ran over a few bodies. He knocked Fitzpatrick down a couple times.
LINDY RUFF Give a human being power, and he or she will think that he or she can control the whole world! This ...
PHILIP T. M. It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market.
ABDELMOUNAIM ADDAS A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the va...
SUNDAY ADELAJA getting control and ownership -- some call it god power -- over the Internet through the power to ta...
JAMES LOVE A team is a team. The team aspect that I've tried to develop over the years is slowly rising to the ...
LEON BELL A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY If you have no power to prevail over someone, leave it to God.
ARABIAN PROVERB You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A. J. KITT He who has power over himself has power over his greatest enemy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
JEREMY CORBYN I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
ROBERT E. LEE Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or no...
LEONE LEVI I realize the simple truth is that power isn’t control at all- power is strength, and giving that ...
BETH REVIS The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.
AULIQ ICE The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what h...
VINCE LOMBARDI F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr.
------ and declines to interfere in ci...
DANIEL WEBSTER Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritar...
NICK LAMPSON He who fears something gives it power over him.
PROVERB Most authoritarian regimes try to control what their citizens read and do online, but China is far a...
LUCIE MORILLON From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power can...
TERRY EAGLETON One of the culprits in that episode, failing to support Greg, [Senator] Stephen Conroy after the nex...
MARK LATHAM He's amazing. He can bring us things other coaches cannot bring, things that he sees [in the Olympic...
JENNIFER HUNT Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t ...
GERMANY KENT A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH LAUREN What?s tough about this is that you have no control over it.
CHARLES SIMON The industry started out with an authoritarian kind of command-and-control model. And the structure ...
DOUGLAS NORBY You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others
JOCELYN MURRAY Justice is God's control over the order of the universe.
Mercy is God's power even over the order of...
KEVIN COOK I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other...
EZRA KLEIN From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or hu...
ERNESTINE ROSE No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it ...
BASHAR AL-ASSAD Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSE Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot...
ZAMAN ALI The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
SIMON SINEK We're outraged at that, ... It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because th...
JASON CATLETT We're outraged at that. It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because they w...
JASON CATLETT Bow to no demeanor, you are the leader of your own life; rationalizing no control is to only fool th...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo...
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STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
For though the day be never so longe,
At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY