Will Power Quotes
We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.
When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.
Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.