Short quotations about, power - Page 4

Marcus Aurelius

To live happily is an inward power …

13 Oct , 2011  

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius ,

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Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the p…

13 Oct , 2011  

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Plutarch , Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)

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Sallust

To someone seeking power, the poore…

13 Oct , 2011  

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. Great short quote and quotation by: Sallust , Roman historian & politician (86 BC – 34 BC)

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To the generous mind the heaviest d…

13 Oct , 2011  

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the powe…

13 Oct , 2011  

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Great short quote and quotation by: Leo Buscaglia ,

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Truth has beauty, power and necessi…

5 Aug , 2011  

Truth has beauty, power and necessity. Great short quote and quotation by: Sylvia Ashton-Warner ,

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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of …

5 Aug , 2011  

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. Great short quote and quotation by: Helen Keller , US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)

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Elie Wiesel

Ultimately, the only power to which…

5 Aug , 2011  

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Great short quote and quotation by: Elie Wiesel , US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 – )

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs…

4 Aug , 2011  

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

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John Adams

We have no government armed with po…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]

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We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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James Madison, (attributed)

We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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