Quotes About Will

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Real political will for change is achieved when the risks associated with the necessary political and structural changes are articulated at the planning stages, the key stakeholders acknowledge and accept those changes, and all stakeholders participate in the relevant processes.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.

I loved you, and so I took these tides of men Into my hands and wrote my will Upon the sky in stars . . . " "Lawrence of Arabia,

Men protesteert niet tegen een zelfgekozen lot.

Your mind is your nine

When you get down to it, what matters is practice, will and a certain amount of skill. Capacity is a small matter, but if everything else is equal, capacity will win out. That's why we want magazines with lots of bullets in them.

Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.

And we finally come to a more mature place in our faith and realize what Bonhoeffer knew: "Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." We

the understanding is stimulated by the quest of ultimate truth; the will is stirred by basically known truth to choose what is truly good.

Knowledge was always purposive: it was characterised by a will to dominate or appropriate.

But she could not move of her own free will—an order from them would immediately have made her get up, but this time what they wanted from her was not blind obedience, acquiescence to an order, they wanted her to anticipate orders, to judge herself a slave and surrender herself as such. This, then, is what they called her consent.

Finally, let it be said that to surrender oneself to the will of others (as often happens with lovers and mystics) and so find oneself at last rid of selfish pleasures, interests, and personal complexes, is in no wise a joyless act, nor one lacking in grandeur.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...