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Quotes About Will

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Lear wills his own death: "Break, heart, I prithee break
~ James Shapiro
In decreeing the Decalogue, moreover, YHWH bypasses Moses to address the people as a whole, communicating his will to them in quasi-democratic openness, without the need for any royal or prophetic intermediary. That is not only without precedent in the history of religion; it is also unparalleled in the Hebrew Bible. God's proclamation of the Decalogue accordingly lies at the heart of the theme of revelation.
~ Jan Assmann
I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
~ Jane Austen
I cannot intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command.
~ Jane Austen
Your camouflage and your world is created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. Only by turning your head away for a moment can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.
~ Jane Roberts
The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.
~ Jane Rule
And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.
~ Janet Fitch
There is no God, there is only what you want.
~ Janet Fitch
There was no God there was only what you wanted.
~ Janet Fitch
some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped . . .
~ Janette Oke
Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can easily cure it. We just need the will.
~ Owen Jones
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
~ William Blake
I was so excited to play Will. He goes into the Upside Down, and he has some pretty crazy experiences.
~ Noah Schnapp
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.
~ Martin of Tours
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.
~ William Butler Yeats
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
~ Stefan Zweig
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
~ John Owen
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
~ Abdelaziz Bouteflika