Quotes About Will

I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

Where are they written? In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world. If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets. Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: "I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

Everything depends on One Word : Maktub !

Love is free and is not ruled by our will or by what we do.

With the strength or our love and our will we can change our destiny as well as the destiny of many others.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will,because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's you mission on earth.

when god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish

It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying.

because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions.

It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.