Will Power Quotes - Page 6

• Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

  Peter McWilliams

  Determination, Matter, Shifting

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Facts, Instinct

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• The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

  William P. Young

  Independence, Normal

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• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Growing, Resistance

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• Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

  James Vila Blake

  Wings, Meditation, Attention

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• You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Years, Two

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• read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Weapons, Defeat

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• The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Procrastination, Years

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
  Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Love Is, Shadow

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Anxiety, Despair

  Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

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• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

  Richard Cecil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.250

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• Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Quitting, Quit Smoking

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• It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Advertising, Eyeballs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

  Richard Branson

  Dirty, Past, Thinking

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Vision, Doubt

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• I have no will power when it comes to sweets. I have a sweet tooth.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Sweet, Teeth, Sweet Tooth

  "Notorious: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata spill personal details". Interview with Nina Terrero, ew.com. September 19, 2016.

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• She [my mother] had a will power that was undeniable. She went on to be with the Lord, she passed away but she lives through me.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Passed Away, Lord

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!

  Michael Kenna

  Reality, Media, Essence

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• History should be about every generation's will to power.

  Cody Wilson

  Generations, Should

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Girl, Kissing, Stronger

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• The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

  Matthew Fox

  Inspirational, People, Coercion

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• I only saw one collection of Victoria Beckham, and I thought it was very much like Pierre Cardin or Marcel Rochas dresses. She's thought about it, and she knows what she wants. And people buy it, so that means she works. She has this incredible will power to do something that she likes to do. And I love that. I respect that.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Mean, People, Dresses

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

  Jim Fixx

  Running, Pain, Acceptance

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