Quotes About Will

for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.

the will of Zeus

Nobody can force you to smile, she says. -What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room. -They can make you show your teeth, but what good is that? Nobody can make you smile against your will.

At its core, Jesus's teaching about the kingdom is summed up in the Lord's Prayer: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). The prayer is that God's kingdom will come to earth and that God's will be done on earth as is the case in heaven. Earth is spoiled by sin, but the question is whether it is spoiled beyond restoration. Jesus's prayer clearly implies that there is hope.

Without a specific destination, the visitors chose routes as they might choose a colour, and even the precise manner in which they became lost expressed their cumulative choices, their will.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfil your dreams!

We are all children of a powerful and great God. Of a God who isn't always going to end - things are not always going to end up the way you want them. His will is not always going to be yours.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Paul Ryan is the establishment tool in D.C. that tries to splinter groups and does not work for the will of the people.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.