Quotes About Will

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Where will wants not, a way opens.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

You get to do what you want to do – if that's what you want to do.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers. A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

What I, Karsa Orlong, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can.

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers.

Witness? Yes, you are witness. Even so, what I, Karsa Orlong, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can.

Omens are for fools, but every truth of the future resides in the present, if only we have the will to see

But,' she continued, 'the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference …and I well know that taste, L'oric. Ask any orphan, no matter how old they are now, and they will tell you the same. We all sucked at that same bitter tit.

with each night they fell back farther, closer to that place where the will to live surrendered to a profound peace.

When curses collide, you might say. Flaws and virtues, the many faces of fateful obsession, of singular purpose. Powers and wills are drawn together, as if one must by nature seek the annihilation of the other. Thus, you and Icarium are now here, and we are moments from a dreadful convergence, and it is my fate to witness. Helpless unto desperate madness. Fortunately for my own sake, I have known this feeling before.

And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that – events beyond the will of the gods – and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.

The weight of the weapon would defy the current – that was the important thing, the way it would refuse to be carried along. Some things could do that. Some things possessed the necessary weight to acquire a will of their own.

That is one curse we all share -- the will to live.