Quotes About Will

he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and the drift." In these cases imagination and will are often blinded by "constructed evils," he wrote. "We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.

Oh Blimey O'Reilly's pantyhose...what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. What light doth through yonder window break? It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

My feelings of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited. I therefore must choose the person on whom to focus my capacity to love, toward whom to direct my will to love.

It is precisely because our consciousness is disordered that conflict occurs between it and the unconscious which seeks to heal it. In other words, mental illness occurs when the conscious will of the individual deviates substantially from the will of God, which is the individual's own unconscious will.

we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.

Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love

Therefore, after analyzing each of these tools, we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.

I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.

What matters is the general picture of the domestic environment, and this I have indicated, - vulgarity of character, love of glittering appearances, disorder, looseness of will, mastery of caprice, and more.

the sole, general, complete expression was that of selfish impassivity, that of eternal deafness, that of a rigid will.

Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)

Indecision is a decision not to use life's first gift to you – the power of choice.

We are all actors in life. Some act like they won't amount to much while others do the opposite. You have a choice

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

True will is wishing backed by power

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.

The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve —an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.