Quotes About Will

Robert Peel, whose conversion had sparked off the last stage of the struggle, would be able to address the House of Commons once more as its Leader. The wearer of the crown had not in the end gone against the will of his government: Emancipation was proposed in the King's speech.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

A volte una soluzione sembra plausibile solo in questo modo: sognando. Forse perché la ragione è pavida, non riesce a riempire i vuoti fra le cose, a stabilire la completezza, che è una forma di semplicità, preferisce una complicazione piena di buchi, e allora la volontà affida la soluzione al sogno.

Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn!

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.