Empower Your Mind

Today I want to share with you some quotations given from standard authors of recognized ability.

They touch subjects that engage the human mind. And as you should know your mind is in my personal opinion what determines your Success.

Theses quotations constitute a treasury of thought which, it is hoped, will be acceptable and helpful to you. They will inspire you and will empower your mind.

Here we go. Enjoy!

Ability:

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.—Dr. Johnson.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.—Longfellow.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.—Gail Hamilton.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.—James A. Garfield.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.—La Rochefoucauld.

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.—Matthew Wren.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.—Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural ability.—Schopenhauer.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.—Chesterfield.

Absolution:

No man takes away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.—Bede.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.—St. Clement of Alexandria.

It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saves His people. The Lord remains alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who takes away the sins of the world.—St. Ambrose.

It appertaining to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.—St. Cyril.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say “I am with you”), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.—St. Ambrose.

Action:

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.—Emerson.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.—Beaconsfield.

There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtful actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to greater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually reconcile us to darkness.—A. Reed.

To the valiant actions speak alone.—Smollett.

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.—Horace Mann.

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are incompatible.—Bovee.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.—Lowell.

Prodigious actions may as well be done

By weaver’s issue, as by prince’s son.

—Dryden.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God’s heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.—Carlyle.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.—Colton.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.—J. Shirley.

Our acts make or mar us,—we are the children of our own deeds.—Victor Hugo.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.—Whipple

Adversity:

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—Colton.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.—Horatius Bonar.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.—Washington Irving.

A wretched soul, bruis’d with adversity,

We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;

But were we burden ‘d with like weight of pain,

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

—Shakespeare.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,

But most chastises those whom most he likes.

—Pomfret.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.—Bolingbroke.

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows;

In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

—Dr. Young.

When Providence, for secret ends,

Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends;

We must conclude it best it should be so,

And not desponding or impatient grow.

—Pomfret.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.—Horace.

In this wild world the fondest and the best

Are the most tried, most troubled and distressed.

—Crabbe.

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.—Chenevix.

There is healing in the bitter cup.—Southey.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carries the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favor.—Bacon.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man’s disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.—Lytton.

Whom the Lord loves He chasteness.—Hebrews.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.—Chapin.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.—Schiller.

Affectation:

Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.—From the French.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.—St. Evremond.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—Lavater.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.—Horace Mann.

Affection:

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.—Dickens.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.—Colossians.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.—Hawthorne.

A solitary blessing few can find,

Our joys with those we love are intertwined,

And he whose wakeful tenderness removes

The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,

Smoothes not another’s rugged path alone,

But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.—Beecher.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—Willis.

Affliction:

God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.—T.L. Cuyler.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.—Phillips Brooks.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.—Richter.

Affliction is but the shadow of God’s wing.—George Macdonald.

Aromatic plants bestow

No spicy fragrance where they grow;

But crushed and trodden to the ground,

Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

—Goldsmith.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.—Matthew Henry.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.—Burgh.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.—Job.

Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue;

Where patience, honor, sweet humanity,

Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.

—Mallet and Thomson.

Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress;

A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

—Burns.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.—Molinos.

No chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.—Hebrews.

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