Will Power Quotes - Page 5

• The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

  Jane Addams

  Drama, Fate, Men

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.41, Youcanprint

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• Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Determination, Trying, Way

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• We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Legs, Arms

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• When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Exercise, Wish, Energy

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.9, BookBaby

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• This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, This World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

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• You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Father, Real, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Innovation, Needs

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• Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

  Richard Machowicz

  Motivational, Believe, Fighting

  Richard J. Machowicz (2000). “Unleashing the Warrior Within: Using the 7 Principles of Combat to Achieve Your Goals”, Hyperion

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• It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is not that you have free will but that your will can eventually make you free, that will can liberate you, that will can release you from slavery.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Motivational, Real, Slavery

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• Biology always beats will power.

  Mehmet Oz

  Biology, Beats

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• Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

  Octavio Paz

  Lying, Power, Technology

  1967 Alternating Current.

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• It is in changing that things find purpose.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strong, Order, Envy

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• A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Uplifting, Determination

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

  J. G. Holland

  Mean, Power, Development

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• Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

  Richard Tarnas

  Self, Mind, Overcoming

  Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.68, Penguin

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• The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Men, Winning

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Determination, Character, Gay

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• I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering my arms, I continue to soar. In the air moving around my head and shoulders, I experience the power of thoughts. In the air moving around my chest, I experience the power of feelings. In the air moving around my legs and feet, I experience the power of will. I am that

  Michael Chekhov

  Moving, Artist, Air

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• You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

  John C. Norcross

  Moving, Past, Risk

  John C. Norcross, Kristin Loberg, Jonathon Norcross (2013). “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

  William P. Young

  Way, Limits, Shack

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Self, Surrender, Paradox

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Airplane, Men

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