"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Power, Successful, Effort, Temperament

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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"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."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

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"Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."

Oswald Chambers, Scottish Theologian

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"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

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"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

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