Quotes About Will

Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.

Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.

People who think you can't will certain things into being with the power of your pride are fools, plain as that.

In the tradition we are dealing with, it was considered obstinacy and was therefore frowned upon to have a will and mind of one's own. It is easy to understand that an intelligent child would want to escape punishments devised for those possessing these traits and that he or she could do so without any difficulty. What the child didn't realize was that escape came at a high price.

The sad truth is, men love to follow a man other men fear," said Clover. "Makes them feel fearsome, too. We tell the odd fond story of the good men. The straight edges. Your Rudd Threetrees, your Dogmen. But it's the butchers men love to sing of. The burners and the blood-spillers. Your Cracknut Whirruns and your Black Dows. Your Bloody-Nines. Men don't dream of doing the right thing, but of ripping what they want from the world with their strength and their will.

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

Because consciousness is awareness, awareness is paying attention, and paying attention is being present and noticing, this consciousness would be aware of when I was present and when I wasn't. I would have to be totally present when I interacted with this mind; my presence would have to match its presence, my will would have to match its will, and my mind would have to match its mind.

Who ever said keeping the law of the Lord is peaceable work? The devil brings a sword and I bring a sword back to him. It is the will of the Lord and I am his servant.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

Taft gets hold of the wet baguette and hits Will with it.

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

For if the will can overlap class, civilization as we have made it will go to pieces.