Quotes About Will

When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

We do not choose love. It claims each man as it will.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

For man is man and master of his fate.

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.