Wills Quotes

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

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 conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.