Quotes About Will

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time.

He who can, can...He who cannot, cannot...But, He who can and will not, Fails.

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.

Thinking is mind over matter.

There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.