Wills Quotes
249 Wills quotes by 199 unique authors
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Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of…
— Pope John Paul II
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To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is…
— Francois Fenelon
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Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their…
— Robert D. Hare
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
— Henrik Ibsen
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A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
— John Jay Chapman
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The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He…
— Alexander MacLaren
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It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living…
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
— William Carlos Williams
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our…
— Julian Simon
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To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Hell is full of good intentions and wills.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He…
— Jerry Bridges
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If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
— James Russell Lowell
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Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
— B. C. Forbes
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The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of…
— John Henry Jowett
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There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
— Simone Weil
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God…
— Francois Fenelon
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The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your…
— Dave Sim
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