Top 100 Quotes About A Will
#1. Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life ...
Adolf Hitler
#2. Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.
Ralph Hodgson
#3. In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah, better hope you get left tons of money.
Kirn Hans
#5. A will can save one's family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).
Henrietta Newton Martin
#7. Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
Alexander MacLaren
#8. Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.
Ravi Zacharias
#9. God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world
Sunday Adelaja
#10. I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process ... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
#11. (The Francophile and radical John Stuart Mill had noted, not long after the Commune fell, in a letter to an English union leader, "an infirmity of the French mind" - that of "being led away by phrases, and treating abstractions as if they were realities which have a will and exert active power.")
Anonymous
#12. The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#13. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?
Wes Moore
#14. I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.
Ibraheem Hamdi
#15. A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.
Theodore Dreiser
#16. Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
Johnny Mercer
#17. If there is a will there is a way.
Jude Law
#18. Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.
Bernie Sanders
#20. Home is the place in deepest space
Where star etched memories burn,
Home is that sigh for a color of sky
and a will to return.
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.
W.C. Fields
#22. The fantastic 4 I's ... I have a vision, I have a will, I own my life and I control my future
Mohammed Sekouty
#23. I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Anita Roddick
#24. All living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Orson Scott Card
#25. Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its own, like an untamed horse challenging her to ride upon its back.
Jonathan Odell
#26. There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own ...
George W. Bush
#27. I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Sumner Redstone
#28. I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future
Mohammed Sekouty
#30. He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.
Nalini Singh
#33. Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#34. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
#35. In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".
Earl Nightingale
#37. Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.
Josh Beckett
#38. To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what.
Euginia Herlihy
#39. Going against the storm requires strength, energy and a will to succeed.
Mitta Xinindlu
#40. Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
Newt Gingrich
#41. Let's begin with a simple assumption. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way. And how would that be? Through the Bible, His revelation.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#43. Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.
Faith Sullivan
#44. Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
#45. Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.
Marcel Proust
#46. Dreams seem to have a will of their own.
Henry Reed
#47. Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
Marcel Proust
#48. I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I'd made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella's money. I should have left it to Sissy and a cat shelter.
Kristen Ashley
#49. Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Honore De Balzac
#50. As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
Jules Verne
#51. Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
William James
#52. Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
Helen Frankenthaler
#53. Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#54. Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.
Anonymous
#55. You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?
T.T. Escurel
#57. Where there's a will, there's a way. Perhaps tomorrow, if not today.
Michele Jennae
#58. Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.
Jack London
#59. We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh
#60. Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?
William K. Wimsatt
#61. Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
Francois Hollande
#62. If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I'm a firm believer that where there's a will, there's a way.
Eric Davis
#64. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.
Nancy Pearcey
#65. Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.
Fulton J. Sheen
#66. Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
Rene Dubos
#67. Gril: Hay ... If there's a will, there's a way.
Boy: True!
Katahimikan ...
Boy: Kaso ngayon minsan distorted na e. There's the way, where's the will?
Girl: Ooh Solid! Rak en Rol!
Manix Abrera
#68. I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.
Jon Jones
#70. It's as if the work on your canvas has a will of its own. When that happens, it can be quite exciting. But disturbing, too, when, as the painter, you are not in control of your painting.
Wally Lamb
#71. Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
#72. There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.
Alexander Whyte
#73. Plan your work and work your plan"
"where there is a will, there is a way
Stephen E. Ambrose
#74. If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Liza Minnelli
#76. Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac
#77. If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W.C. Fields
#78. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.
Ayn Rand
#79. A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
Toni Bentley
#80. We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Jacqueline Carey
#81. Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#82. I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
Isadora Duncan
#83. Where there is a will to conquer a man, there is a way to conquer a man.
Delilah Marvelle
#84. However, the fickle strivings of her heart and her mind did not encounter a will in her that, without limiting them, could guide them and keep her from becoming their charming and fragile plaything.
Marcel Proust
#85. To mitigate complications and aid in the procedure of devolution of assets after death, a 'will' has to be well planned and drafted.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#86. What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!
Matthew Henry
#88. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#89. Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
Peter Drucker
#90. If there's a will, there's a way!
I feel larger than LIFE
and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders ... as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..
Donna Scrima-Black
#91. There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.
John Steinbeck
#92. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.
Henry David Thoreau
#96. The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
Irene Thomas
#98. If you can't believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, let that drive push you to make it happen. Sometimes you'll run into brick walls that are put there to test you. Find a way around them and stay focused on your dream. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Isabel Lopez
#99. It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?
Ayumi Hamasaki
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