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• I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

  Daniel Topolski

  Loyalty, Men, Race

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• If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

  Laozi

  Country, Eye, People

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• Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Motivational, Blessed, Blessing

  "The works of Henry Van Dyke".

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• Goals are discovered, not made.

  Richard J. Foster

  Motivational, Goal, Made

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

  Robert Burns

  Motivational, Wisdom, Power

  Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Self, Grace

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• Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Determination, Opportunity

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Discipline, Quality

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• Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because to will means to keep yourself separate from existence. It is a little subtle, but try to feel it. The moment you will it means you are always willing against things as they are. You want them to be some other way.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Men, Names

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

  Bob Schwartz

  Health, Exercise, Wellness

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets Don't Work”

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• As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Men, Desire

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• We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

  Roger Crawford

  Motivational, Choices, Faces

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Expectations, Temptation, Able

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Evil, Dying

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• Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Power, Masters

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• Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

  Michael Bloomberg

  Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Plans

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• Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Goal, Suffering

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• The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Struggle, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.139, Vintage

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• Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.

  John C. Norcross

  Flames, Fuel, Emotion

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• Kissing power is stronger than will power.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

  Susan Sontag

  Ignorance, Disease, States

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loss, Doe, Weight

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