Will To Power Quotes
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.
The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.
Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.
I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.
The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
