Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

• Power

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid

• Power

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Honore de Balzac

• Power

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

• Power
• Wisdom
• Hope

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

• Knowledge
• Power

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

• Power

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Saint Patrick

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Lord Byron

• Life
• Art

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

• Man
• Power

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

• Suffering

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

• Change
• Difficulty

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

• Power

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Julius Caesar

• Power

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

• Change

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

• Wisdom

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

• Mind
• Spirit
• Artist