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«It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.»
Author: Andrew Jackson (President) | About: Government, Power, Purpose | Keywords: bend, purposes, regretted, selfish
«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley | About: Character, Power, Purpose, Relationships, Thought, Understanding | Keywords: altogether, comprehends, definite, exert, exerts, resisted, symbol
«A warrior?feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.»
Author: David Gemmell | About: Belief, Knowledge, Purpose, Strength
«Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.»
Author: Robert J. McCracken | About: Focus, Happiness, Purpose
«A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.»
Author: William Shedd | About: Courage, Purpose, Risk | Keywords: harbor, harbored, harbors, safe, safes, safe harbor, ship, shipped, shipping, ships
«Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Purpose, Talent | Keywords: shade, sundial, talents
«A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker»
Author: David Hume (Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher) | About: Design, Purpose, Universe | Keywords: careless, thinker
«It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.»
Author: Hermann Hesse (Novelist, Poet) | About: Honor, Learning, Purpose
«I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.»
Author: Og Mandino (Essayist, Psychologist) | About: Mountains, Purpose | Keywords: All My, apply, cries, efforts, grain, henceforth, I am here, mercy, mountain, potential, sand, shrank, shrink, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk, strain, strained, straining
«Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Fame, Glory, Purpose, Virtue
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