He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu
All knowledge is within us.
Swami Vivekananda
Ideas disturb the levelness of life.
Susan Sontag
Necessity is usually more powerful than duty.
Seneca
The most addictive and useless drug you’ll taste is called “comfort”.
Maxime Lagacé
For everything outside of our control, we retrain – at the core of our being – an incredible power: The power to choose what we do with what happens to us. The power to decide what role an event will play in our lives. The power to write the end of the story.
Ryan Holiday
Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
Swami Vivekananda
Your life conditions in the long run are your own fault.
Bill Masur
Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
Rudyard Kipling
It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
Marcus Aurelius
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Alan Watts
Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, and experiencing the power this brings.
Robert Greene
The most powerful, smallest and largest thing in the universe is the mind.
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Gratitude is the easiest and most powerful way to transform your life. Become truly grateful, and you will magnetize everything you need.
Rhonda Byrne
This moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life.
Ryan Holiday
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Sometimes saying “fuck it” at the right time can be a very powerful thing. It tells your mind that you are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the other side.
David Goggins
True power lies in having nothing to gain or lose and still doing the right thing the right way and for the right reasons.
Taylor Burrowes
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joy is your birthright. Claim it. Choose it consciously. Align with it. It’s the highest vibration you can embody, and the most powerful.
Gabby Bernstein
Happiness is the feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The less there was of me, the happier I got.
Leonard Cohen
The brain is deeper than the sea.
Emily Dickinson
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
Scrolling is the new smoking.
The Minimalists
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.
14th Dalai Lama
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
Intellect without balls is like a racecar without tires.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don’t be fooled by the illusion that there’s always something better out there. What you’ve got is already the greener side of someone else’s grass.
Thibaut
The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the big facts.
Paulo Coelho
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right.
C.S. Lewis
Always remember: Silence and Smile are two very powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems. Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
Paulo Coelho
All is possible when emptiness is possible. Nothing is possible when emptiness is impossible.
Nagarjuna
Know that you don’t know. That is superior.
Lao Tzu
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.
Naval Ravikant