Your Powers Quotes

51 quotes by 43 authors

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but… — Franz Boas
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush… — Charles Dudley Warner
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal… — Phillips Brooks
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to… — James M. Barrie
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define… — John F. Kennedy
They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. — Lisa Jewell
Use your powers for good instead of evil — Nnedi Okorafor
Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this… — Guy Kawasaki
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,… — George Santayana
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with… — William Osler
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a… — Epictetus
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth… — Jojo Moyes
There is only one problem: You do not trust your powers. There is no difference between you and God. Count your blessings. Be proud of… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change… — Mark Twain
When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results. — Charles L. Allen
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's… — Phillips Brooks
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up,… — E. Stanley Jones
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your… — Richard Henry Horne

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