"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."

Power,

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."

Exlpore more Power quotes

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

Power, Trust, Day, Judgment

"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

Michelle Shocked, American Musician

Power, Nature, People, Artists

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Power, Rhetoric

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Success, Morality, Crime

"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Choice, Glory, Responsibility

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

Power, Religion, Reason

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Power, People, Man

"All children have creative power."

Brenda Ueland, American Writer

Power, Children

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

Anna Sewell, English Writer

Power, Cruelty, Doctrine, Guilt

Explore more quotes by William Godwin

"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

Duty

"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."

Happiness

"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."

Passion

"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

Education

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

Reading

"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

Act

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

Argument

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

Man

"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."

Freedom

"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."

Imagination