Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates