Sheer Force Of Will Quotes

#1. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

Susan Wiggs

#3. No one will touch you." Not ever. Even after death he would protect his woman with the sheer force of his motherfucking will. "Tell me what scares you and I will eliminate it, no matter what it is."
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Shara Azod

#4. I just wonder if sheer force of will to forgive can be enough to set things right Because after all, power is one thing. Love is a different creature altogether.

Emily Giffin

#5. In Bruce's opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it.

Francine Pascal

#6. Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will.
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Cassandra Clare

#7. We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

Sarah J. Buckley

#8. Meanwhile, I was holding on to my composure by sheer force of will. But when we ended the call I was likely going to dismember Greg's favorite boxer briefs and hide his cell phone charger.

Penny Reid

#9. Who there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Werent' you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you peole did was graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They're brought into being by sheer force of will,

Veronica Roth

#10. Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Martin Filler

#11. A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself

Caitlin Moran

#12. He continued to believe that, like everything else in his life, it would be righted by the sheer force of his will

Richard Flanagan

#13. He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.

Donna Tartt

#14. I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.

Robin Hobb

#15. Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#16. It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos

James S.A. Corey

#17. Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force ...

Betty Williams

#19. The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence ...

Jane Bennett

#20. Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.

Jesse Michaels

#21. If I had echolocation I could map out the terrain of ab muscles through sheer force of will. His cut body is meant to be relief mapped the way Braille is meant to be read. With my fingertips.

Julia Kent

#22. Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

Edward Crankshaw

#23. Harlow could live by sheer force of will, I decided I was going to give her the world to fight for.

Abbi Glines

#24. Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

Christine Feehan

#25. It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.

Johanna Drucker