Mighty Quotes

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. (Laozi)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. View quote
Samuel Richardson
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. View quote
David Icke
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. View quote
Sophocles
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. View quote
Fidel Castro
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. (George Eliot)
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. View quote
Alexander Pope
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. View quote
Anton LaVey
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" View quote
Rudyard Kipling
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. (George William Russell)
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. View quote
John Calvin
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. View quote
Niall Ferguson
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. View quote
John Steinbeck
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms. View quote
William Butler Yeats
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