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Quotes About Will

He's not a man if he's not willing to take the risk; he's not a boy if he doesn't regret his love one bit and he's not a child if he has made you feel that with hope there's a will.
~ Unknown
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
~ Amy Carmichael
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.
~ Tex Ritter
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.
~ Gordon Lish
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
~ Denis Waitley
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
~ Dallas Willard
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
~ Denis Diderot
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
~ Dalai Lama
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?
~ Karen Essex
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
~ Andre Malraux
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
~ Plutarch
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
~ William Shakespeare
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
~ Bill Vaughan
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
~ Charles de Gaulle
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you... .
~ Joshua Fernandez