Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.