Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
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.
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.
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.
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.
This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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.
There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run.
Hell is full of good intentions and wills.
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?