Will Power Quotes

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

My power will be in humility.

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

For we put the power in the people.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Commitment cannot be taught; it can only be caught. I refer to the crusading spirit. Without the crusading spirit, you may have the starting power but not the staying power.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.