Will Quotes
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If your government says you can own property and maintain control of it, but only if you pay property taxes, you are a renter, not an owner. Governments get away with these rackets because enough people still believe they somehow represent “the will of the people,” as opposed to their sponsors.
Adam Kokesh -
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.
Thomas Aquinas
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You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
Flannery O'Connor -
This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.
Andreï Makine -
What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.
Anwarul Karim Chowdhury -
I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
George Brandis -
It's up to you to make every day as perfect as possible - it's a question of will and discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld -
She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
Elaine Davis -
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
Augustus Toplady -
Cars will talk to each other and the world around them to make driving both safer and more efficient. 'Vehicle-to-vehicle' and 'vehicle-to-infrastructure' connectivity will become commonplace.
William Clay Ford, Jr. -
Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.
George Hearst -
Lots of people ask me whether they can become strong. Most certainly! You all can acquire great strength, if you have the will and proper guidance.
George Hackenschmidt -
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
Italo Calvino
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A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
Augustus Toplady -
God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
Arcangela Tarabotti -
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin -
It was all still there, an immense quilt of bold, fantastical human will: the faded tawny golds and grays of the descending rooftops and scorched chimney pots, the cold steel-blue river with its fabled Left and Right Banks, the towers and steeples and crooked cobblestone streets, bisected by wide, brutish boulevards. As seductive as a mirage, but every slab of stone, every silent or uproarious inch of it, real. She had not returned triumphant as a brilliant painter or a self-made woman whose only worry about money was how to spend it ... but she had come back to Paris anyway. It was hard to imagine being unhappy here.
Christine Sneed -
The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!
Mitch Hewer -
Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
Henrik Ibsen -
If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart...
Carrie Newcomer -
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna Brackett -
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe