Top 100 My Will Quotes
#1. Lord, soften his arrogance and temper and intemperate habits. Make him a man after Your own heart . . . because somehow, against my will and surely Yours, he's stolen mine.
Laura Frantz
#2. Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.
Arjun Rampal
#3. But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
Dante Alighieri
#4. I am going to let you keep your mind," said Athos. "Do you know why?" The blades tip bit in, and Beloc gasped. "So I can watch the war play in your eyes every time your body obeys my will instead of yours.
V.E Schwab
#5. I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.
MacDonald Harris
#6. It was a kiss that took - took my desire, took my passion, took my will.
Laurelin Paige
#7. You can look for a new job as much as you want,my wolf, but I'm planning on keeping you." , "Plan all you want, Alpha, but my will is my own.
Amber Kell
#8. I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.
Axl Rose
#9. Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX
#10. The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.
Elisabeth Elliot
#11. I've ceased to smile long ago,
The bitter winds now chill my lips,
Another hope was just let go,
Another song was added since.
Against my will, I'll cede this song
To people's laughter and offense,
Because love's silence for the soul
Is too unbearably immense.
Anna Akhmatova
#12. Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?'
"Yes i do." she says uncertainly.
Philippa Gregory
#13. All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Muhammad Ali
#14. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.
Jakob Bohme
#15. If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should.
Charles Dickens
#16. I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Bayazid Bastami
#17. God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.
Karen Kingsbury
#18. Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,
an illness given by the hand of man!
Victor Hugo
#19. Tis my will that thou and he shall die by my hand. Thou hast but to choose the manner of thy death." "Old age," Cimorene said promptly. "Mock
Patricia C. Wrede
#20. The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
E. Stanley Jones
#21. I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
#22. We want to make our own plans and then pray, 'My will be done, if you please Massa Jesus, in earth, as it is in my plans.' You got to put your life in Jesus' hands. Trust that in the end, whatever happens, He still in control.
Lynn Austin
#23. My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.
Frances J Roberts
#24. A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will
over and over.
Haruki Murakami
#25. though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And
Anne Rice
#26. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C.
And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.
Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone?
God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
Paul Simon
#28. Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.
Francine Rivers
#30. That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.
Rachel E. Carter
#31. I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.
Timothy Hallinan
#32. All I feel is sympathy for the devil who has crawled inside my heart, stealing my soul and my will from me.
Kitty Thomas
#33. Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
Linkin Park
#34. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.
Jerry Bridges
#35. Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#36. I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.
D.L. Moody
#37. I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all.
Robert Shea
#38. Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.
Cheryl Rainfield
#39. Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald.
David Mitchell
#41. Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.
-Benedick (Much Ado)
William Shakespeare
#42. For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
T.E. Lawrence
#44. So you'd keep me here against my will-"
"Know this pirate," he said, his hands gripping the railing, "you are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.
Alexandra Bracken
#45. So you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy even, in your submission. The more you submit, the greater my joy ... it's a very simple equation.
E.L. James
#46. I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.
John Webster
#47. I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
Daveigh Chase
#48. I realized that I was trying to fit God's will into my will. Not out of disobedience, but out of fear that I would disappoint God, or let Him down.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#49. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.
Knut Hamsun
#50. There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live ... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.
Ingmar Bergman
#51. I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.
Joseph Arthur
#52. Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.
Micah Stampley
#53. ... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.
Eugie Foster
#54. I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.
Steve Wynn
#56. Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
Bruce Lee
#57. I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.
Jennifer Lawrence
#58. Love is the commitment of my will to your needs and best interests, regardless of the cost.
Tim Kimmel
#59. Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
Lord Byron
#61. I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
Louisa May Alcott
#62. I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter
but my will gets weak
and my thoughts seem to scatter
but I think it's about forgiveness ...
forgiveness,
even if you don't love me anymore.
Don Henley
#63. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.
Shawn Colvin
#64. Remind me again why I put up with you?
'Cause you sold me your soul for five bucks, and now you must submit to my will?' I still had the sheet of paper, written in his untidy fifth-grade scrawl. Gideon David Belmonte. One soul.
Bethany Frenette
#66. One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
Elyn Saks
#67. Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes.
My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.
Slim The Mobster
#68. Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#69. I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
Louisa May Alcott
#70. Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#71. No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.
Daniel Cormier
#72. Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.
Greg Mortenson
#73. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.
Gloria Furman
#74. Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary. Unite my will to the will of the Immaculata, which is one with your will.
Michael Gaitley
#75. I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
#76. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
Oswald Chambers
#78. The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine but to mold my will into his.
Timothy Keller
#79. I am with you because I want to be, not because I need you. It's my will be with you. And that makes it much stronger, because God knows I'm as stubborn as they come.
Carolina Soto
#80. Woe and death to all who resist my will!
Wilhelm II
#81. The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
Lysander Spooner
#82. I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes ... But I will not let anyone use me against my will.
Christopher Paolini
#83. God is a great gatekeeper. I find Him opening and closing it before me, against my will and often without my consent.
Farzaneh Doosti
#84. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree.
Tahereh Mafi
#85. If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.
John Elway
#86. I was born here and I'll die here against my will.
Gordon Marino
#87. My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.
Julia Cameron
#88. If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Eleonora Duse
#89. I've told you once I would not force you to my will ... When we become lovers, it will be because you desire as much as I
-Richard
Susanna Kearsley
#90. I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars
T.E. Lawrence
#91. When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
Kirstie Alley
#92. I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
Margaret Atwood
#93. I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.
Lars Von Trier
#94. And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.
George W. Bush
#95. I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.
Sandra Cisneros
#96. The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
John Ortberg
#97. Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.
Stefan Zweig
#98. Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell
#99. Because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.
Valerie Martin
#100. I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
Juvenal
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