#powers

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#alone #give #giving #greatest #intangible

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. ↗

— John Stossel

#discovery #fuel #innovation #own #people

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fallen #her #large #little #may

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#fallen #her #large #little #may

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#commitment #courage #defend #indebted #islam

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#anti-democratic #democratic state #government #human #human rights

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#any #better #enormous #enough #group

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#develop #empathy #imagination #opens #powers