#Will Quotes

“If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.”

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”

“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”

“We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.”

“Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.”

“The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”

“I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.”

“Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.”

“Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.”

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”

“more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.”

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”

“We insist, it seems, on living.”

“Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.”

“Will is wish, and liberty is power.”

“What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”

“When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will”

“Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.”

“The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.”

“Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

“An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.”

“Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.”

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”

“So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.”

“...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.”

“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.”

“Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.”

“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”

“Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.”

“I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.”

“We disparage reason.But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”

“Every unjust man is unjust against his will.”

“Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.”

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”

“What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.”

“There is no love where there is no will”

“Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.”

“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”

“These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?”