Demand Quote by Socrates Download Open image “The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demand Greater Honor Inspirational Love Power
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
Your greatest power is: To be more loving, To be more courageous, To be more tolerant, To be more joyous, To be more friendly,… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Your greatest power is to be... More loving, more courageous, more joyous, more friendly, more sensitive, more aware, more forgiving, more tolerant, more humble,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
“It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.” — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“If you can master the challenge of servicing others without expecting a reward, then you are more blessed than those you serve.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that… — Socrates Copy Share
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything,… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share
