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  • This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

    Pain   Skills   Names  
  • I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

    "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
  • The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”
  • Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

    Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
  • You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

    Mean   May   Steps  
    "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
  • People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

    Strong   Children   Mean  
    Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.58, Hachette UK
  • Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  • 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.

    Self   Anxiety   Despair  
    Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.
  • If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  • Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

    Flower   Mean   Maturity  
  • Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.

  • The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

    Pounds   Dieting   Weight  
  • Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will force, it can manifest according to the mental blueprint you have created.

    Mean   Patterns   Made  
  • Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

  • Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

    Beautiful   Pride   Loss  
  • Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

    Next   Willpower   Easier  
    B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale
  • Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

  • Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  • 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.

    Death   Struggle   Men  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.139, Vintage
  • Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

    Simple   Men   Wish  
    "A History of Civilization" by Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, and Robert Lee Wolff, (p. 520), 1955.
  • Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  • One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

    Art   Mastery   Genius  
    Letter to his sister, as quoted in "Man Ray: American Artist" (1988) by Neil Baldwin, May 18, 1941.
  • A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford
  • Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

    Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

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

  • 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 (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社
  • We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

  • Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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