"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
― Phillips Brooks
Topic(s):
Power
More From Phillips Brooks
- "The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
- "Happiness is the natural flower of duty."
- "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
More In Power
- "The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power."― Henry A. Wallace
- "Power ought to serve as a check to power."― Charles de Secondat
- "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."― Louis Kahn