Human Will Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the…
— William Ralph Inge
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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's…
— Edward Teller
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown…
— Noam Chomsky
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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and…
— Larry Ellison
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
— Gustave Flaubert
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Is human love the growth of the human will ?
— Ellen Key
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
— Stephen Covey
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of…
— Nassau William Senior
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Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety…
— Sam Keen
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Truth is the key to unlocking the door to divine confidence. This is a truth that can be felt only when you get out of…
— Debbie Ford
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Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only…
— Michael O'Brien
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We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and…
— A. D. Gordon
Who Wrote These Human Will Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Human Will Quotes, led by these top contributors: