Quotes About Will

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.