Quotessence
Home / Topics / Will Quotes

Will Quotes

Browse 543 quotes about Will.

Will Quotes

“I PAINT MY FACE. By Omrane Khuder. Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face, Toxic white Make-up buries my Scars, My Eyes tell lies; Dumbfounded Confidence hides the Disgrace. Place the tragic Vehicle called My Life in to Drive, Sad pathetic Clown; Late for the suppression show, Despair another time; Let the chuckles and defeat derive. I paint my Heart; I hide my True. I paint my Soul; I keep it from You. I paint, I cannot accept; To ignore you the way you ignore Me? I paint my scarred and pitiful Face; No Will left to restore Me. I paint my Face; it’s all I know to do. My painted Face shatters the Mirror, yet still all I see is You.”

HeartSoulConfidenceSadDepressionLiesPaintDefeatMakeupWillClownPatheticDisgraceScarsFaceMirrorIgnore
Author:Omrane Khuder
Create image

“Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that you want them to. Once you have the perfect marriage, your finances under control, a better job, or a nicer home - then you'll be happy. LIES, LIES, LIES. You will never be happy until you make the decision to do so.”

HappinessLiesDeceptionSatanChoiceHappiness QuotesWillHappiness AdviceLies We Tell OurselvesFree AgencyAdversaryChoice And Attitude
Book:The Happy Lady
Create image

“The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possible for an 'ordinary person.' There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”

MeditationOptimismWillMagickSuperheroesOzymandias
Book:Watchmen
Create image

“Great performers share a way of thinking, a set of attitudes and attributes like optimism, confidence, persistence, and strong will. They all want to push themselves to see how great they can become. These attributes and attitudes cause champions to work harder and smarter than other people as they prepare for competition. They help them stay focused under pressure and to produce their best performances when the stakes are highest.”

HardStrongConfidenceOptimismPersistenceChampionWillPush
Book:How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
Create image

“...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns of ordinary life, a constant influence, a peculiar grace; but who, if he be called upon to face some awful moment to which Heaven has joined great issues, good or bad for human kind, is happy as a lover; and attired with sudden brightness, like a man inspired; and, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law in calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; or if an unexpected call succeed, come when it will, is equal to the need: he who, though thus endued as with a sense and faculty for storm and turbulence, is yet a soul whose master-bias leans to homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, are at his heart; and such fidelity it is his darling passion to approve; more brave for this, that he hath much to love:—”

CharacterHomeJoyPeaceLeadershipStrengthDisciplineOptimismPatienceWarriorMaturityControlledWill
Book:Character of the Happy Warrior
Create image

“Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!”

HopeWinningAchieveWillingOptimismStrategyFood For ThoughtIsraelmore AyivorDuesPlanningPreparationWinnerHopefulWillingnessWillWinMaximumStrategicPlanCalculationsDiceAchievementsPrepareAchieversStrategiesStrikeWillfullyDueCalculateStrategically
Book:Daily Drive 365
Create image

“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in them as metaphysical entities -- they are as real as the flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them, by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes.”

SoulUnderstandingWill
Author:Melvin Konner
Create image

“I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a person who would betray Daniel. Now I wondered if Daniel could surprise himself, could surprise me, by being such a person too. Would he let himself do such a thing? I didn’t think so. And then I wondered: Is it by will, then, that we are who we are? Do we decide, do we make ourselves, after a certain point in life? I tried to call up the moment when I had decided I could be such a person. It seemed to me I hadn’t quite got there, not really. That I was still just playing with the idea of it when the ground shifted under me. But perhaps to play with such an idea was already to be a certain kind of person.”

FateWillFidelity
Book:While I Was Gone
Create image

“Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak tree. God’s intention when He made the acorn was the oak tree. His intention for us is ‘… the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ Many deaths must go into our reaching that measure, many letting-goes. When you look at the oak tree, you don’t feel that the loss’ of the acorn is a very great loss. The more you perceive God’s purpose in your life, the less terrible the losses seem.”

InspirationalSelfGodChristianPurposeJesusTreeGloryWillOakGod S WillAcorn
Author:Elisabeth Elliot
Create image

“Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012)”

GodFaithQuotesFatherAgencyWillAftermathShaun F MessickWorlds Without End
Author:Shaun F. Messick
Create image

“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.”

Life LessonsChangeLeadershipDestinyHistoryFateAcceptanceWisdom QuotesWillWillpowerGiving BirthBlack History MonthHistoriansMaking HistoryHarlem RenaissanceWriting HistoryAcceptance Of Oneself And OthersPostered Poetics By AberjhaniNational History DayHistoricityIntellectual HistoryLiving HistoryLessons From HistoryHistory MakersWomen S History MonthHispanic HistoryAgents Of ChangeBirth And RebirthHistoricizationChange AdvocatesContemporary HistoriansCurrent HistoryHistorian AberjhaniModern HistoriansOutstanding People In HistoryPhilosophy Of ChangeReluctant Advocates
Book:Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Create image

“Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.”

GodPrayerMercyWill
Book:The Bible And The Closet Or How We May Read The Scriptures With The Most Spiritual Profit: And Secret Prayer Successfully Managed
Create image

“As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.”

ImportantChristianYoungWorkAnswersFamilyIssuesEternalHumanAtheistJewBuddhistJobYouThinkAgnosticWillQuestionsMuslimNowTheConfrontingToItIADoingAndIsOfThatBecomeEveryoneBenefitSameWithAreOnlyDealPauseFromSoSomeBeforeMustThroughAsLaterAnOrBasicWhileDifferWhetherTheseSoonerDistractingPressuresIndicatedNew Ager
Book:Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Create image