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- The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
- Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
- Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
- Sir Richard Steele
- Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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