Wills Quotes

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

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

All things must; man is the only creature that 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.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

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

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

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

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

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

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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

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.

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.

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.