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Quotes About Will

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.
~ Giordano Bruno
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
~ Joseph Priestley
Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
~ Angelus Silesius
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
~ Otto Rank
The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.
~ Jakob Bohme
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
~ Rudolf Steiner
So men's will to recovery strove against the drifting wilderness to halt and tame it; but the wilderness might slip from their hands
~ Rose Macaulay
Before he left Rome, Marcus had been in a fair way to becoming a charioteer, in Cradoc's sense of the word, and now desire woke in him, not to possess this team, for he was not one of those who much be able to say "Mine" before they can truly enjoy a thing, but to have them out and harnessed; to feel the vibrating chariot floor under him, and the spread reins quick with life in his hands, and these lovely, fiery little creatures in the traces, his will and theirs at one.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Capability = Means × Way^2 × 3xWill
~ Rupert Smith
Militant feminists are pro?choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
~ Rush Limbaugh
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man. If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilization escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.
~ Russell Kirk
Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individual, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
~ Russell Kirk
The courage, the will, the guts, to fight the British, even if they end up here, like you, in Cyprus. I don't know any other place in the world where this is happening.
~ Ruth Gruber
A good will with an evil will equals an explosion.
~ Ryan Pack
The world we live in is just a small but cruel and effective taste of God's will and authority.
~ Ryan Pack
I honed my argumentation skills early and often, growing up in a family and a community that held friendly, even warm conversations at a decibel level that in other cultural contexts means the will is being rewritten as soon as the doors have been slammed.
~ S. Bear Bergman
He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.
~ S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
Tesadüflerin oyunca?? olacak olduktan sonra ne diye bir irademiz vard?? Kullanamad?ktan sonra gö?sümüzü dolduran hisler ve kafam?zdaki dü?ünceler neye yarard??
~ Sabahattin Ali
Bana öyle geliyor ki, hakikaten yapabilece?imiz bir tek i? vard?r, o da ölmek. Bak, bunu yapabiliriz ve ancak bu takdirde irademizi tam bir ?ey yapmakta kullanm?? oluruz.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
The victory of the Revolution's will and yours over the stooge pocket is regarded as a victory for the world revolution everywhere, just as the victory of the revolutionaries in South East Asia was a victory of revolutionaries everywhere.
~ Saddam Hussein
If one has mastery over one's vyana, one can leave one's body at will.
~ Sadhguru
Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur
~ Marc Levy