Barack Obama Quotes, Military Quotes, Self Quotes

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Military Quotes , Self Quotes

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Self Quotes

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Elderly Quotes , Self Quotes

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Self Quotes , Restraint Quotes

I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Self Quotes

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Independent Quotes , Self Quotes

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Years Quotes

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Stress Quotes , Self Quotes

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Frustration Quotes , Self Quotes

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Heart Quotes , Self Quotes

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Love Quotes , Self Quotes

Self-respect knows no considerations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Respect Quotes , Self Quotes

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Self Quotes , America Quotes

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Tears Quotes

Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Survival Quotes

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Literature Quotes