“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
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“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.”
“There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”
“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.”
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”
“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”
“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”