Quotes About Will

Contra a minha vontade, tornei-me normal. Não consigo evitá-lo.»

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.

There is today, every day, set before thee good and evil, life and death--choose thou. For only self can separate you from the love of the Father. For it should be manifested to thee that thou art conscious in a living world, aware of suffering, of sorrow, of joy, of pleasure. These, to be sure, are the price one pays for having will, knowledge. But let that knowledge be spent in a way and manner to help others. For as ye do to thy fellow man ye do to thy Maker.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Why do you follow me?- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollow Still it is your will to follow, I am off; - to heel, Apollo!

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will].

Wishing won't keep you safe - safety will.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Death can come in the most painful way as possible ,but can teach you the most important lesson of all, the will to live.

Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done].

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.

Finally, the princeps wrote (or revised) his will, complex and surprising; it took up two notebooks

Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.

The unsigned will is one of those tropes of detective fiction that I've come to dislike, only because it's so overused. In real life, a lot of people don't even bother to make a will but then we've all managed to persuade ourselves that we're going to live for ever. They certainly don't go round the place threatening to change it in order to give someone the perfect excuse to come and kill them. It looked as if Alan Conway had done exactly that.