Quotes
Quotes about Will
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note. Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.
The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Barkis is willin'!
"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
