Top 80 Self Willed Quotes
#1. The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
Hakuin Ekaku
#2. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
#3. Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus
#4. A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.
Thomas Merton
#6. Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.
Alison Bechdel
#7. Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
William Shakespeare
#8. A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
Bruce Lee
#9. I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Hermann Hesse
#11. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
Bruce Lee
#12. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey - and to be welcomed when she comes home.
Gloria Steinem
#13. You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the Latina or the Italian spitfires. The woman with a passion and the woman who didn't want to listen to anyone, did everything her own way, very self-willed.
Patricia Mauceri
#14. Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.
Guy De Maupassant
#15. Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Confucius
#16. Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.
John Calvin
#17. will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.
Irvin D. Yalom
#18. Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
Thomas Troward
#19. He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.
William A. Phillips
#20. If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.
Storm Jameson
#21. I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.
Harper Lee
#22. Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
Theodore Levitt
#24. Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.
Katherine Arden
#25. At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts.
Pope Francis
#26. I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate ... but I don't have ... a central cause ... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be ... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.
Jennifer Beals
#27. From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.
Geraldine Brooks
#28. There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#29. If a man has but one child," said the Senator, "and the family is famous for producing unusual, strong-willed individuals, what standards can the man have for deciding whether or not his child is a nut?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#30. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
James Baldwin
#31. I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
Jan De Bont
#32. What do people who don't drink do on such occasions? Face the facts perhaps. But facing a fact is one thing, and overcoming it is another. Cognac was going to overcome the facts: overcome Edna's willed hardness and overcome my lack of suitable words and actions.
Waguih Ghali
#33. Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
Bat For Lashes
#34. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear,
for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
Martin Luther
#35. Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.
Cheryl Strayed
#36. There is always more profit and more consolation in the public Offices of the Church than in private acts of devotion, God having willed to give the preference to communion in prayer over all individual action.
Francis De Sales
#37. He forced air into his lungs, willed his heart to slow down.
Kaylea Cross
#38. Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.
Kaje Harper
#39. Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
Robert Genn
#40. True men ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
Zhuangzi
#41. He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.
Nicolas Malebranche
#42. Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.
Paul Graham
#43. If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over!
Stephen Richards
#44. I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#45. This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
Nikola Tesla
#46. To be a heroine is to be outgoing and strong willed
Sunday Adelaja
#47. For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.
Michael Walsh
#48. Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
Simone De Beauvoir
#49. The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
John Piper
#50. must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.
Thomas Merton
#51. The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.
Chelsey Philpot
#52. Fangs sank into Nikki Youngblood's leg, setting her skin on fire. A scream gurgled in her throat, but she willed herself past trees smeared by her jarred vision
Heather Burch
#53. ...being in love. It was not an emotion that could be willed away when it became too arduous to bear. It clung tight with the tenacity of a stubborn clam, forcing its victim to face the pain (Adam Ashworth).
Cynthia Wicklund
#54. I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett
#55. It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
Dante Alighieri
#56. Joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)
Andre Dubus III
#57. Critical thinking requires reflection and analysis of various viewpoints. This does not mean that all positions are correct - not at all! This simply means that one should avoid willed ignorance, and instead carefully analyze all arguments.
Van Jacob E. Vleet
#58. You weak-willed, jealous sack of vampire spit.
Kim Harrison
#59. Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins.
George W. Bush
#60. If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
Hulagu Khan
#61. Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'
Greg Proops
#62. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.
Derek Landy
#63. Emotionally and physically, I'm an extremely fragile creation of God; while the strong will and character are formed out of the necessity to protect the vulnerable core.
Sahara Sanders
#64. They're pretty conspicuous."
"Why? Are they green and horny?" I willed a blush away and said, "I mean, as in having horns,not ... the other.
Rachel Hawkins
#65. The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
Lewis Thomas
#66. At the last, it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as He willed with His own; and that in every part of the work of grace - He accomplished His purpose, and glorified His own name!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.
Aeriel Miranda
#68. I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
Never this broken.
Suheir Hammad
#69. In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
David Mitchell
#70. Zack Holloway stood at the doorway. He willed his legs to move, to carry himself away from the mess of blood and his professor's entrails in front of him. But he just, couldn't, budge.
Kent Reaper
#71. Do I have to take a memo for misogynist alert?"
"God, no. I'm not that traditional. Sexism is too 2015."
"Don't bother to explain, I'm not one of those strong-willed, self-declared feminists.
Rea Lidde
#72. I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
Eli Broad
#73. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.
Marlo Thomas
#74. God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
Sigrid Undset
#75. My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
Alicia Markova
#76. Don't be so strong-willed that you won't let the man who loves you take care of you or do something for you. You never know when they will grow tired of trying.
Bernadette Marie
#77. He loved her. He loved her because nature willed it. Because they were already united and of one body. The bare flesh on every part of her belonged to him. The scent emitting from her skin was his.
Alexandra Silber
#78. Jesus didn't leave a material inheritance to His disciples. All He had when He died was a robe. But Jesus willed His followers something more valuable than gold. He willed us His peace. He said: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives" [John 14:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
#79. To paint, to write, to engage in politics - these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.
Simone De Beauvoir
#80. Hardy would never be the easiest man to have a relationship with. He was complex and strong-willed and rough-edged. But I loved those qualities about him. I was more than willing to take him exactly as he was. And it didn't hurt that he seemed equally game to take me on my own terms.
Lisa Kleypas
