Quotes About Will

Man is man, and master of his fate.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

To me, defense is a mental attitude it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.