“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception”
— Brandon Sanderson, book Words of Radiance
Source: Words of Radiance
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De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1, ch. 69; translation by I. P. Sheldon-Williams, cited from Peter Dronke (ed.) A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 1988) p. 2.
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