latent power Quotes

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.