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"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."	M. Shawn Covey
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."	Stephen R. Covey
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."	Tench Coxe
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."	(John) Michael Crichton
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."	Emerich Edward Dalbert
"To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."	Arbie M. Dale
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men."	Ron Dart
"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety."	Charles Robert Darwin
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."	Robyn Davidson
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."	Robyn Davidson
"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action."	Midge Dector
"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action."	Midge Dector
"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent."	Vine Deloria
"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being."	The Dhammapada
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall."	Leonardo DiCaprio
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen."	John Sloan Dickey
"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things."	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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