Quotes about Will
Man is man, and master of his fate.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
— Charles Spurgeon
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
— DH Lawrence
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
— Marcus Aurelius
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
— Mark Twain
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
— Cicero
Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
— John Maxwell
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
— Peter Kreeft