Quotes About Self-will

People are, well, people, and they all have their own quirks and will do whatever they want to no matter what you would like them to do.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

As long we insist on writing our own stories, he cannot write his living will onto our hearts.

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.

Now, as St. Augustine saw long ago, the opposite of love is pride. Love eliminates pride because its will for the good of the other nullifies our arrogant presumption that we should get our way. We are concerned for the good of others and assured that our good is taken care of without self-will. Thus pride and fear and their dreadful offspring no longer rule our life as love becomes completed in us.

Much, not all, of the anti-government sentiment in the United States today is thinly veiled hatred of law and exaltation of brutal self-will. Thus it easily slips over into "righteous wrongdoing.

Do exactly as you please–if you still trust what seems to please you.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life.

I've been driven to a good attitude by being hit over the head by self-will.

We have found that when we give up self-will regarding food and completely turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we receive all kinds of guidance.

Torrance emphasized that "the gospel of unconditional grace is very difficult for us, for it is so costly. It takes away from under our feet the very ground on which we want to stand, and the free will which we as human beings cherish so dearly becomes exposed as a subtle form of self-will".

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.