Willed Quotes
137 Willed quotes by 122 unique authors
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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all…
— Thomas Aquinas
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A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
— Bruce Lee
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One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into…
— Gary Hamel
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For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was…
— John Calvin
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You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff,…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.
— Helen Mirren
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father…
— Pope Francis
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
— Friedrich Engels
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For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day…
— Pope Paul VI
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God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his…
— D. A. Carson
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Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions…
— Zhuangzi
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The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
— Lewis Thomas
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In great things it is enough even to have willed.
— Propertius
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He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to…
— Adolf Hitler
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and…
— Samuel Alexander
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I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.
— Alli Simpson
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I am very happy that Floyd Mayweather and I can give the fans the fight they have wanted for so many years. They have waited long…
— Manny Pacquiao
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I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
— Jan de Bont
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When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the…
— Jacob Bronowski
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