Will Power Quotes

Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.