Will To Power Quotes

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

Our power is in our ability to decide.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years

There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream…you!

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

You have the power to change your thoughts and your thoughts have the power to change your life.

Power is the ability to get things done

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

I firmly believe people have the power to make decisions locally and cooperatively. Anarchism is how that is put into practice.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.