Quotes About Will

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not pray, "Thank you for this opportunity to suffer," but rather pled desperately for an escape. And yet he was willing to undergo suffering in service of a higher goal. In the end he left the hard questions ("if there be any other way . . .") to the will of the Father, and trusted that God could use even the outrage of his death for good.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.

the hospital seemed perfectly designed to immobilize not only his body but his spirit. "The will to live is not a theoretical abstraction, but a physiological reality with therapeutic characteristics," he wrote in Anatomy of an Illness. But the hospital environment tended to stifle that will to live.

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' Yes i do. she says uncertainly.

Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

subjection of the wife to the husband's will." Her "therapy" consisted of imprisonment and domestic servitude

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)

Sólo de libre voluntad se somete uno al Amor

The human soul is composed of reason, will & desire

El gesto de uno de sus dedos podía provocar la destrucción del campo entero, aniquilar a millares de hombres; mientras la suma de todas nuestras energías y voluntades no habría bastado para prolongar ni un minuto la vida de uno solo de nosotros.