Quotes About Will

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

In His will, our peace.

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.

Pray as if you possess no will. Work as if everything depends on you.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.