Arbitrary Quote by Philip Guston

“To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose…

— Stephen Richards

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

— P.D. Ouspensky

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act…

— Anonymous

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented;…

— Anonymous

Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's…

— Jurgen Klopp

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

— Nicholas of Cusa

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die.…

— Ellen Willis

“I have lost the will to change”

— Breaking Benjamin

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from…

— Nikolai Berdyaev