Quotes About Will

The will to learn is the most important ingredient for education

The Spirit calls, I must do the Masters will.

Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will.

It is better to do the will of God than seek your own ways.

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bur ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bir ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.

As Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.

Those whose job it is to teach too often seem to see nothing in the act of faith but an act of the intellect; but as a matter of fact the will also has a large part in it. They forget that belief is a supernatural gift, and that there is a deep gulf between merely seeing the motives of credibility and making a definite act of faith.

Les événements disposent de nous pour presque tout. Les rares fois où il nous revient de décider librement, nous n'avons pas le droit de vouloir autre chose que le bonheur.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.