Quotes About Will

In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

One famous implication of this doctrine is that though we distinguish in thought between God's eternity, power, goodness, intellect, will, and so forth, in God himself there is no distinction between any of the divine attributes. God's eternity is his power, which is his goodness, which is his intellect, which is his will, and so on. Indeed, God himself just is his power, his goodness, and so on, just as he just is his existence, and just is his essence.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed? To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.

Mary will be required to exhibit total trust in God, which means "to abandon oneself" to the living God and the mystery of his will. Indeed, Mary's faith will be tested over and over again. And each time she will pass the test, "accepting fully and with a ready heart everything that is decreed in the divine plan."†

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

To stay on the path means to love God more than the world. To do this you have to let go of power, control, and self-will. A tall order as most pursue happiness on Earth, not freedom in God. Those who have this freedom want for nothing, are content, and live a blessed life.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

One cannot seize and capture one's love, to impose its will.

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger

The new era they're talking about is shit! The age where pirates dreams will be over, they say?! Huh?! HA HA HA HA HA HA!! A man's dream... will never die!!

I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.

Basic decisions of our society are made through the expressed will of the people. That is why when we see these liberties threatened, instead of falling apart, our nation becomes unified and our democracies come together... in spite of our varied backgrounds and many racial strains.

Querer bien va de la mano del querer mal, y yo no consigo, no consigo concentrarme alrededor de ninguna buena voluntad

Palabras, con ellas se hace y se deshace a voluntad.

Un Dio facile non è Dio. Lui è altro da noi. Non si comunica con Dio, è così oltre il nostro livello che non può essere interrogato, ma solo invocato. Se si manifesta, lo fa in silenzio, per piccoli preziosi segnali muti che vengono da nomi del tutto comuni. Fare la sua volontà è piegare la testa e obbligarsi a credergli.

La voluntad de separarse del Todo es el infierno.

Reading his account leaves one with the impression that being taken out of oneself, forgetting oneself as an individual, as he puts it, invariably leads to a contemplative state from which all passion is absent. In fact, he describes the aesthetic attitude as an objective frame of mind, as if stepping into another world, 'where everything that moves our will, and thus violently agitates us, no longer exists'.20

As ever in a crisis, Marie Antoinette showed herself the forceful one who nonetheless could not bring herself finally to impose her will.