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Quotes About Will

Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.
~ J.R. Ward
What if I can't believe it, he amended. "You assume destiny requires your permission to exist.
~ J.R. Ward
A pesar de que poseemos el libre albedrío, el destino absoluto es inmutable. Lo que se supone que debe ocurrir siempre ocurre, de una manera u otra.
~ J.R. Ward
When you actively turn your thoughts to all the bad consequences of the desires as they arise in you, the passion for them gradually dries up. As your passion diminishes, your mind comes under control. Firm, dedicated faith (sraddha) brings you the raw force of determination, will.
~ Jack Hawley
When we make ourselves high priests of art we deceive ourselves again, art is like a genie. It is more powerful than ourselves, but only by virtue of ourselves does it exist and create. Like a genie it has no will of its own, and is, even somewhat stupid; but by our will it moves to build our gleaming palaces and provide a mistress for the palace, which is most important. The high priest is a cultist, who worships the genie that someone else has invoked.
~ Jack Kerouac
Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.
~ Jack London
Nobody else is going to draw the attention that the Charlo twins will.
~ Jermall Charlo
The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
~ Mwai Kibaki
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, that's the only real control you have, is whether you decide to exist.
~ Ruth Wilson
Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
~ Harry S. Truman
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
~ Michael O'Brien
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Destruction is a man's will, Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will, Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)
~ Babu Rajan
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
~ José de Alencar
There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.
~ Captain Price
th' unconquerable will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
~ William James
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.
~ George Crabbe