I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have...

Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to...

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and...

Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and...

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses....

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience...

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

I would argue that passion is more important than brain power.

Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

Never stop believing in your dreams or the power within you to make them come true.

Whenever you see an overnight success, your eyes deceive you. What you are witnessing is the hour of opportunity unleashing the potential energy of previous choices. It was not one decision, but the accumulated power...

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Everything is mended by the soil.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

To strengthen your power of love,Love those who do not deserve your love.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

the train is moving, so either jump in or jump out but i dare you to stand in front of it !!

The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

… the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy...

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the...

You could get carried away with the superlatives. Not just his power, but his selectivity at the plate. That type of approach can carry over to the other guys in the lineup.

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

A solitary figure, Lord Hutton has enormous power

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy – improve yourself!

Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in...

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the...

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don’t you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is “timing”it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way.

Valdžia yra ten, kur žmonės mano ją esant. Nei daugiau, nei mažiau.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

[‘] ‘Distance is of no issue anymore, … ‘The longer you make it, the more you make it a power game.