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“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

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

Men Life Giving Purpose Power Meaning Of Life Stubborn Unfolding Nonconformity Meaning Life Life Unfolding

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”

Ifs Purpose Humanity Power Effects Chiefs Useless Spells Lacking Calamity Usefulness Combining

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.”

Purpose Individual Strong Power Chiefs Devices Categories Individualism Refuge Defeated Units Employed Indication Despotism Strengthening Resourceful Recourse Individual Freedom

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.”

Purpose Sides Power Fire Plans Limits Weapons Areas Nuclear Doctrine Nuclear Weapons Conventional Nato Toleration Contingency Contingency Plans

Author:Alexander Haig

“Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]”

Used Purpose Power Guilt Nemo

Author:Tacitus

“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.”

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.”

Mind Feelings Christian Purpose Courses Belief Wish Simple Money Moral Power Standards Conscience Safety Orthodox Division Merchants Dichotomy Simple Faith

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.”

“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.”

“The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.”

Persons Purpose Lord Power Greater Approach Accomplishment Adversaries Greater Power

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

Enough Character Use Purpose Leadership Ability Leader Power Willing Capacity Will Power

Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.”

Inspirational Desire Purpose Powerful Power Burning Persistence Burning Desire

Author:Napoleon Hill

“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”

Giving Able Political Purpose Politics Power Getting High

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.”

Political Purpose Strong Social Change Ability Power Economic Achieve Achievement Understood Economics Economic Justice Economic Change

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”

Inspirational Reason Purpose Power Capacity Links Teamwork Cooperation

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.”

Looks Used Purpose Power Grace Victory Defeat Significant Chosen Witness Triumph Sufficient Frustration Helplessness God's Grace Imprisonment Powerlessness

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.”

Purpose Grows Power Greater Failing Silent Perseverance Irresistible Hash Silent Power

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.”

Men May Character Spiritual Purpose Energy Power Achieve Talent He Man Pursuit Defined Labour

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.”

“It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.”

Source: Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.”

Ifs Purpose Power Mankind Advantage Speed Partners Germany Allies Execution Providence

Author:William E. Gladstone

“What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.”

Political Purpose Poor Power Advice Identity Weak Organization Scientist Glitter Inarticulate

Author:Paul Wellstone

“The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.”

Reason Age Purpose Values Winning Social Power Structure Absence Merit Approval Principal Indicators Age Of Reason

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.”

Way Inspirational Feels Purpose Passion Nature Power Inspire Photography Passionate Connected Capture Connecting Conveying Most Inspiring Power Of Nature

Author:Peter Lik

“In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.”

Purpose Opinion Power Example Eating Kingdoms Propaganda Turkeys Kingdom Come Critters

Book:Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon

Source: Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon