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“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
— Indira Gandhi
“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
— Albert Einstein
“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.”
— Richard Dawkins
“Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.”
— Henry Miller
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”
— Nido Qubein
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
— Edmund Burke
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
— Virginia Woolf
“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.”
— Lois McMaster Bujold
“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
— Plato
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
— Plato
“It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.”
— Quintilian
“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ”
— Salvador Dali
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
— Aristotle
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ”
— Aristotle
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ”
— Aristotle
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
— Aristotle
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
— Aristotle
“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ”
— Aristotle
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
— Aristotle
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
— Bruce Lee
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
— Jane Austen
“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.”
— Jane Austen
“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. ”
— Winston Churchill
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