Willful Quotes
77 quotes by 74 authors
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I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds…
— Kobe Bryant
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to…
— Thomas Paine
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
— George Eliot
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other…
— Nikola Tesla
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
— James C. Collins
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
— Al Gore
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
— William Vaughn Moody
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to…
— Aberjhani
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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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The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our…
— Richard Rolle
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To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset…
— Carl Jung
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Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
— Holly Lisle
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,…
— M. Scott Peck
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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
— E E Cummings
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not…
— Nikola Tesla
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Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
— D. A. Carson
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To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during…
— Charles Taze Russell
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
— Jared Diamond
Who Wrote These Willful Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 77 Willful Quotes, led by these top contributors: