You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
read more
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann read more
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes read more
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
He is most powerful who has power over himself
He is most powerful who has power over himself
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the tooth
of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.
God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the tooth
of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
