Quotes About Will

The soul has two faculties and they should be clearly distinguished. There is the will: its work is to love—and so to choose, to decide, to act. There is the intellect: its work is TO KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND, TO SEE: to see what—TO SEE WHAT'S THERE.

So many of our troubles flow from a defective use of the intelligence or will or energy we have, that we are in danger of thinking that all our troubles could be cured by a better use of our own powers—

Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert's surface.

Hayat?n ve ümidin düÅŸman? bir ortam içinde yazma eylemi kiÅŸinin kendi ipini çekmeden önce vasiyetini yazma isteÄŸinden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olam?yordu.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.

Nur die neue Vorstellung erweckt ästhetische Freude, sondern jede Vorstellung, die nicht in die Sphäre des Willens fällt, erweckt ästhetische Freude. Sagt man es aber doch, dann würde es bedeuten, nur eine neue Vorstellung können wir derart aufnehmen, daß unsere Willenssphäre nicht berührt wird. Nun ist es aber sicher, daß es neue Vorstellungen gibt, welche wir nicht ästhetisch werten.

Evil is sometimes like a tool in your hand, recognized or unrecognized, you are able, if you have the will to do it, to set it aside, without being opposed.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.