Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.