Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Bernard Baruch

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin