Power Of Will Quotes

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Alfred Rosenberg
“A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.”
Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Indira Gandhi
“A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.”
Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi on herself and her times: Her last and only autobiographical interview with Nemai Sadhan Bose

Henry James
“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything.”
Henry James, The Aspern Papers

Jules Verne
“So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature.”
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Good God! Can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open … that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood … with the axe … Good God, can it be?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Abhijit Naskar
“Where there is a will, there is a balcony of possibilities.”
Abhijit Naskar

Abhijit Naskar
“If you can devote your existence to one purpose, to such an extent that you breathe that purpose, dream that purpose and live that purpose, then your mind automatically gets rewired as per your will to serve that purpose.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human