Quotes About Will

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows / and has always known / that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

Ciò che avviene, non avviene tanto perché alcuni vogliono che avvenga, quanto perché la massa degli uomini abdica alla sua volontà, lascia fare, lascia aggruppare i nodi che poi solo la spada potrà tagliare, lascia promulgare le leggi che poi solo la rivolta farà abrogare, lascia salire al potere gli uomini che poi solo un ammutinamento potrà rovesciare

God's will usually seemed to coincide with her father's, and against this partnership there was no hope of appeal.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

Man is his desire.

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. I am the power they can't tear down. And my will is law. They will do as I say. The dead don't command me. I command them. Power, true power, comes from within. Not without.

Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right thing without knowing it, as some could.

Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

Anatomy is destiny, and it is indeed grim destiny that a man who wishes to impose his will on a woman often has the means of physical force available to him. The same is not generally true in reverse. This biological fact of nature is not fair. But there is no fairness in nature. There is only nature in nature.

Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what she asked for—for the most part. Now here she sat with a contrite heart—not because she had sinned against God but because she was unhappy that she had been allowed to follow her will to the road's end.

It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.

Human beings could not have done this work on their own. God's spirit had been at work in holy Øistein and the men who built the church after him. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Now she understood those words. A reflection of the splendor of God's kingdom bore witness through the stones that His will was all that was beautiful.

God help you... You want nothing more from all your prayers and fassting than to force your will on God. Does it surprise you, then, that it has accomplished so little good?

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Dans la femme parée, la Nature est présente, mais captive, modelée par une volonté humaine selon le désir de l'homme.

Et en fait tout homme qui a eu de vraies amours, de vraies révoltes, de vrais désirs, de vraies volontés, sait bien qu'il n'a besoin d'aucune garantie étrangère por être sûr de ses buts; leur certitude vient de son propre élan.

Inutile de prétendre intégrer la mort à la vie et se conduire de manière rationnelle en face d'une chose qui ne l'est pas : que chacun se débrouille à sa guise dans la confusion de ses sentiments. Je comprends toutes les dernières volontés, et aussi qu'on n'en ait aucune;

Yet, there is hardly a sadder virtue than resignation. It transforms into phantoms and contingent reveries projects which had at the beginning been set up as will and freedom.

Es desde el corazón de mi vida, que yo deseo, prefiero, rechazo.

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.