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Your Powers Quotes by George Santayana
- 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,…
- To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
More Your Powers Quotes
- Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — Guy Kawasaki
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana
- Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find,… — William Osler