Will To Power Quotes

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

Real power is creating stuff.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.