You only have power

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The difference between outlaws and in-laws is that outlaws don’t promise to pay it back.

~ Kin Hubbard

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

~ Chaim Herzog

No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

~ John S. Bonnell

courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

~ Harry S. Truman

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

~ Henry Fielding

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck — but, most of all, endurance.

~ James Arthur Baldwin

The secret to success is to be ready when opportunity comes.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, ‘The black cat is always the last one off the fence.’ I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

~ Solomon Short

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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