Will And Will Power

(309 votes)   If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(261 votes)   Calmness is the cradle of power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(241 votes)   Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(241 votes)   Man has will, but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(231 votes)   Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(225 votes)   A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472, Italian Architect, Painter, Sculptor, writer

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(215 votes)   The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Withrop Aldrich

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(181 votes)   Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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(178 votes)   Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(176 votes)   A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(166 votes)   Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(154 votes)   Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(151 votes)   Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(149 votes)   The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverbs

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(141 votes)   He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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