Browsing Quotes With Tag: power (25)
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Speaker: James MadisonSource: Speech at the Constitutional ConventionPosted: 23 Aug 2009 at 8:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Speaker: Victor HugoPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
Speaker: Alcoholics AnonymousPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Speaker: Edward Everett HalePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are empowered by what is expected of us.
Speaker: Robert BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The natural consequence that comes to those who depart from the way of the Lord is that they are left in their own strength. While in the heat of our success we might assume that our own strength is sufficient, those who rely upon the arm of the flesh soon discover how weak and unreliable it truly is.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
At times many of us let that enemy of achievement – even the culprit of ‘self defeat’ – dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy’s voice whispers in our ears, “you can’t do it.” “You’re too young.” “You’re too old.” “You’re nobody.” This is when we remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth provides a profound sense of strength and power.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will pay more attention to your spiritual self, which is eternal, than to your mortal self, which is temporary, you can always resist the temptations of Satan and conquer his efforts to take you into his power.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For most of us, one of the great needs in life is to be brought to visualize our potential and be motivated to reach for it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe that most of us horribly neglect this creative power within us. We live too much out of our memories, too little out of our imaginations. Realize it or not, control it or not, the spiritual (mental) creation precedes the physical creation in all things. Always begin with the end in mind. Most of life’s battles are really lost in private, not in public.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…This is the reef on which
His power shall strike and flounder, till he learns how great
A chasm lies between ruling and being ruled.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Power newly won is always harsh.” Hephaestus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance for joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days into a hellish turmoil.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!