Willful Quotes

77 quotes by 74 authors

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
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
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot
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
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. — James C. Collins
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore
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
Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates. — William Vaughn Moody
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
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
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
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
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
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
The opposite of play isnâ€™t work. Itâ€™s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured… — Brian Sutton-Smith
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
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
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
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
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond

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