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Quotes About Will

Your will shall decide your destiny.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
God's will is your deepest desires.
~ Dan Brown
Who can control his fate?
~ William Shakespeare
I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.
~ Melinda McGraw
Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.
~ Tony Robbins
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
~ Samuel Butler
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.
~ Richard Adams
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
~ Christopher Reeve
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
~ Plato
I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
~ Daveigh Chase
Have a living will if you don't want long-term life support. It makes the decision easier for the family.
~ Pam Shriver
I doubt if there is such a thing as a wholly free choice, because one's choices are rooted in one's personality.
~ Dick Francis
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
~ Don DeLillo
heat that rots ambition and stuns the intellect and will.
~ Don DeLillo
The soft life is what I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be.
~ Don DeLillo
Se Dio vuole,' Alaimo said. Griffoni made a noise, half gasp and half laugh. 'If God wills,' she said.
~ Donna Leon
Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
~ Donna Tartt
The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
~ Donna Tartt
It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
~ Donna Tartt
If this is correct, then sermons should target people's thinking as much as their wills and feelings.
~ J.P. Moreland
The planet is man's; he has bent it to his will and made it his to enjoy; his to develop, and his to destroy.
~ Unknown
There is always plenty of time each day for the will of God.
~ Unknown
But it wasn't even close to perfect if you can't trust it to stand up on its own merit. Not if you have to try and control it and play games to try and shape it to your will. This doesn't save it, it destroys it. And it certainly does not protect or save you.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
Los prejuicios han nacido en ti a falta de luces y, sea razonando, sea sin razonar, hacen que tu conducta sea tan inconsecuente como extraña. Sometido a verdaderos deberes, te impones otros con los que es imposible o inútil cumplir; finalmente, buscas hacerte separar del camino en la persecución del objeto cuya posesión te parece más deseable. Nuestra unión, nuestros vínculos pasan a depender de una voluntad ajena.
~ Jacques Cazotte