Willed Quotes
137 quotes by 126 authors
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
— Theodore Bikel
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
— Aeschylus
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
— Eli Broad
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My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig…
— Tupac Shakur
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
— Tacitus
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
— Theodore Levitt
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but…
— Nikola Tesla
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You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to…
— George W. Bush
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Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a…
— Susan B. Anthony
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held…
— Barry Long
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
— Thomas Merton
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To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures…
— Henry Joy McCracken
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My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how…
— Doug Flutie
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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in…
— Angela of Foligno
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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we…
— Fulton J. Sheen
Who Wrote These Willed Quotes
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