Quotes of Potency - somelinesforyou

“ Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Might makes right. ”

- Aesop

“ Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Union gives strength. ”

- Aesop

“ They go from strength to strength. ”

- Bible

“ Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. ”

- Ralph J. Cudworth

“ There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'. ”

- Andre Gide

“ He did nothing in particular, And did it very well. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. ”

- Drew Barrymore

“ It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. ”

- Unknown

“ Know your strengths and take advantage of them. ”

- Greg Norman

“ Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do? ”

- Stanley Baldwin

“ A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. ”

- Walter Martin

“ She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. ”

- Bible

“ It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. ”

- Unknown

“ The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet. ”

- Yehudi Menuhin

“ Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ”

- Ralph Ellison

“ Giving is the highest expression of potency. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder — waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. ”

- John Milton
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