“ Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
- 394
“ There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ”
- Bliss Carman- Copy
- 1K
“ I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated. ”
- John Carmack- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ”
- Johannes Kepler- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. ”
- Sir John Lubbock- Copy
- 630
“ If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 795
“ Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
- 2K
“ We see that when the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. We see that when reverence is lacking from life's activities, the result is cruelty, violence and loneliness. ”
- Gary Zukav- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Too many people are mere products of their context, lacking the will to change, to develop their potential. I also believe, however, that anyone, of any age and in any circumstances, can transform himself if he wants to. ”
- Warren Bennis- Copy
- 510
“ We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ”
- William James- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies… Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society, is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life. ”
- Ed Hays- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. ”
- John Malkovich- Copy
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“ It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim… lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations… ”
- Ezra- Copy
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