Top 100 Quotes About The Will
#1. A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.
Narendra Modi
#2. Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.
George Packer
#3. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.
Jed Rubenfeld
#4. They made me think of long-forgotten conflicts and compromises between the imagination and the will, reason and feeling, power and sensuality; together with many more specifically personal sensations, experienced in the past, of pleasure and of pain.
Anthony Powell
#5. For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority is treated with that kind of religious respect which the orthodox give to the will of God.
Bertrand Russell
#6. One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
Nirmala Srivastava
#7. All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.
Vilfredo Pareto
#8. There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.
James Hunt
#9. Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.
Howard Schultz
#10. The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
Cynthia P. Schneider
#11. Anger tried to boil up higher inside her. She closed her eyes, praying for God's peace. Human wrath was against the will of God and only gave Satan influence over a soul. Honor must leave these evil men to God's justice.
Lyn Cote
#12. If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
Barbara Tuchman
#13. The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill
#14. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.
Oswald J. Smith
#15. Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work'" (John 4:34).
Anonymous
#16. The mind can break and be lost forever, but if the will breaks it comes back stronger.
Diane Capri
#17. To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B.C. Forbes
#18. Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions, pushed only by the will to survive; beings weighed down with an enormous list of frustrations and tangible losses with gazes from which even dignity had disappeared.
Leonardo Padura
#19. We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#20. Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.
Jonathan Edwards
#21. I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.
Catherine Booth
#22. I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard M. Nixon
#23. A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.
Robin Wasserman
#24. They're too beaten down - they don't have the will or the hope to resist. That
Brandon Sanderson
#25. It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."
Phillips Brooks
#26. There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin
#27. The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.
Alexander Siddig
#28. No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
Nelson Mandela
#30. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:16, 17) .
A.W. Tozer
#31. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
#32. What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
William Matthews
#33. In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.
Robin Sacredfire
#34. Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.
Mark Steyn
#35. War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. What's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step?
Irina Serban
#38. Since the world began, God has raised up prophets who speak the will of heaven to the people of their times. It is our responsibility to listen and then apply the messages the Lord provides for us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#40. If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
#41. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Juma Ikangaa
#42. A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
Daphne Du Maurier
#43. My lady the duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of fortune; 'but laws go as kings like;' let nobody speak ill of duennas, above all of ancient maiden ones; for
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#44. One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
Andy Stanley
#45. Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
Jerry Bridges
#46. Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.
Mother Teresa
#48. Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
Rebecca West
#49. The Lord's sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him.
Thomas R. Schreiner
#50. Cupidity ... takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.
Thomas Merton
#51. Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
Elvis Costello
#52. If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
Philippa Gregory
#53. Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#54. Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.
Samuel Smiles
#55. there's a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is "compassionate conviction." With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on the common good. She is a champion for the cause of peace and justice. She has the will and the drive to do right.
Simone Campbell
#56. We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. We always have a choice. Sometimes it's just the will we lack.
Greer Macallister
#58. If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for us by the will of God.
Thomas Merton
#59. Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
Juvenal
#60. If you are not living according to the will of God but independent of Him, you will never be happy and experience inner rest
Sunday Adelaja
#61. An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999).
Russel M. Nelson
#62. When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
Vance Havner
#63. The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson
#64. True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
Thomas Aquinas
#65. 'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'
Gautama Buddha
#66. On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
C.S. Lewis
#67. To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If
Thomas Merton
#68. Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men - even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant you lose the will to evolve.
Ryu Murakami
#69. We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
John Hoeven
#70. Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the will, thus it is the will and our choices which determine everything.
Bryant McGill
#71. Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
#72. True saving faith involves "the whole personality": the mind is instructed, the emotions are stirred, and the will then acts in obedience to God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#74. The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it
this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.
Elizabeth Goudge
#76. Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.
Jim Clyburn
#77. The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#79. Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.
Mike Tyson
#80. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of God, without Whose care not a hair of man's head can fall?
Leo Tolstoy
#81. Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.
Sun Myung Moon
#82. There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
Dada Vaswani
#83. No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
Yann Martel
#84. People would like to see peace and stability, and that is why we have had engagement with the ethnic armed groups. That's why our reform process is based on the wishes and the will of the people.
Thein Sein
#85. A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.
David Jeremiah
#86. Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.
Amish Tripathi
#87. Tis the will of Our Savior that we should find you a spouse. (Henry)
'Tis the will of Lucifer that you should torment me until the day he can take over. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#88. One ought perhaps not to count Moses, as he was a mere executor of the will of God; he must nevertheless be admired, if only for the grace that made him worthy of speaking to God.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#89. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.
Jack Hyles
#92. To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater
#93. To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.
Tom Landry
#94. Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
Mike Mason
#95. If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
Elisabeth Elliot
#96. God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
Blaise Pascal
#97. Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
Baha'u'llah
#98. Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
Fausto Cercignani
#99. For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed ... it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
Edward Feser
#100. That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.
Stephen King
