Wills Quotes

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone, Within, Voice

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther

God, Goes, Choose

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius

Nature, Death, Else

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Knowledge, Makes

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life, God, Everything

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Him, Prayer

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Friedrich Schiller

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
Willie Nelson

Far, Blues, Popular

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann Hesse

Someone, Everything, Ourselves

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
William Morris

Work, Mind, Help

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen

Life, God, Struggle

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
George Strait

Best, Band, Simply

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Die, Product, Organism

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham

Money, Fun, Real

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
George Strait

Trying, Same, Young

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

Nothing, Person, Everything

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
Chuck Grassley

Life, Family, End

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William R. Alger

Peace, God, Destiny

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
Buck Owens

Music, School, Thought

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Teacher, Everything, Him

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
John Leonard

Fall, Books, Tree

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Human, Reality, Self

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
Hjalmar Branting

Peace, Difficult, Create

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

Mind, Two, Body

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Chauncey Wright

Nature, Why, Put

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.
William Drummond

Life, Leaving, Learn

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Leon Battista Alberti

The Finals are about a test of wills.
Bill Laimbeer

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