Our Powers Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in… — Virginia Woolf
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification… — Roger Angell
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty. — Olivia Wilde
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about… — Densey Clyne
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… — Thomas Jefferson
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible â€“ and I make use of painting to… — Rene Magritte
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most. — Eudora Welty
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find… — Julian Assange
Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers. — Jimmy Sangster
It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters. — Dani Shapiro
Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of… — Randy Alcorn
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore,… — Maximilian Kolbe

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