Will Power Quotes
To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.
The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
