Will To Power Quotes

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.