Short quotations about, power - Page 2

James Roy Smith

There is nothing in the world more …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. Great short quote and quotation by: James Roy Smith ,

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There is only one way to happiness …

17 Nov , 2014  

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus , Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

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Brenda Ueland

Think of yourself as an incandescen…

17 Dec , 2013  

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. Great short quote and quotation by: Brenda Ueland ,

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Think what you do when you run into…

17 Dec , 2013  

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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Captain J. A. Hadfield

This art of resting the mind and th…

17 Dec , 2013  

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. Great short quote and quotation by: Captain J. A. Hadfield ,

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Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

This is the bitterest pain among me…

14 Jun , 2013  

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. Great short quote and quotation by: Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus , Greek historian & traveler (484 BC – 430 BC)

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Susan Polis Schutz

This life is yours. Take the power …

14 Jun , 2013  

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No […]

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Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

This only is denied to God: the pow…

17 Apr , 2013  

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Great short quote and quotation by: Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics , (448 BC – 400 BC)

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Alexis DeTocqueville

This Rock has become an object of v…

17 Apr , 2013  

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for […]

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064

This world is the will to power – a…

17 Apr , 2013  

This world is the will to power – and nothing besides! Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064 , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

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Frederick Douglas

Those who profess to favor freedom,…

18 Jan , 2013  

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it […]

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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Through me you pass into the city o…

19 Dec , 2011  

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and […]

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