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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivational, Freedom, Real

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• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).

  Richard Rosen

  Eight, Vision, Doubt

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Strength, Men

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• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Recovery, Thinking

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

  John Perry

  Mean, May, Steps

  "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Bases

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Strength, Desire

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong

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• Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

  Cesare Pavese

  Power, Free Will, Single Relationship

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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

  Man Ray

  Art, Mastery, Genius

  Letter to his sister, as quoted in "Man Ray: American Artist" (1988) by Neil Baldwin, May 18, 1941.

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• The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Resistance, Tendencies

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• Everything is generated through your own will power.

  Ray Bradbury

  Power

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

  Rollo May

  Purpose, Used, Complexity

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Will To Live

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2017). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.40, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Life Is, Discharge

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• 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.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Next, Willpower, Easier

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale

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• Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Degrees, Assuming

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• Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

  Ray Bradbury

  Democracy, Want, What You Want

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Heart, Character, Men

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1972). “The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings of Ludwig Feuerbach”, Anchor

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• Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Good Life, Desire, Guarantees

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• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Sacrifice, Presidential

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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