Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant-not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim