There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. 587
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. 660
I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life. 2.66K
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. 718
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. 1.31K
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. 843
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. 638
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part. 617
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. 646
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. 617
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 2.25K
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. 693
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. 682
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. 708
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. 1.32K
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. 2.24K
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. 618
