"The need to exert power, when thwarted in……" — Charles Horton Cooley
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the…
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is,…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to…
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your…
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