Will Power Quotes

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Power educates the potentate.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

If dreams give you power, then I'm strong enough to walk through my heart till you love me.