His Powers Quotes
57 quotes by 53 authors
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery…
— Maria Montessori
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.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
— Albert Einstein
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[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose,…
— B. C. Forbes
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Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
— William H. Macy
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on…
— Joseph Alleine
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Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
— George Iles
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
— Earl Nightingale
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that…
— Annie Besant
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...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
— Lev Polugaevsky
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One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
— John Burroughs
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Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one…
— John Herman Randall
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Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to…
— Tacitus
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