Will Quotes

Without ceasing the will, I mean the will never to die, the spirit of unsubmissiveness to death, labours to build up the house of life, and without ceasing the keen blasts and stormy assaults of reason beat it down.[De continuo la voluntad, quiero decir, la voluntad de no morirse nunca, la irresignación a la muerte, fragua la morada de la vida, y de continuo la razón la está abatiendo con vendavales y chaparrones.]

Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be constrained to do so by the whole body; which means nothing else than that he shall be forced to be free.[Que quiconque refusera d’obéir à la volonté générale y sera contraint partout le corps: ce qui ne signifie autre chose sinon qu’on le forcera d’être libre.]

When ye are exalted above praise and blame, and your will would command all things, as a loving one’s will: there is the origin of your virtue.[Wenn ihr erhaben seid über Lob und Tadel, und euer Wille allen Dingen befehlen will, als eines Liebenden Wille: da ist der Ursprung eurer Tugend.]

The world is independent of my will.[Die Welt ist unabhängig von meinem Willen.]

The general will is always right.[La volonté générale est toujours droite.]

I want to know my own will and to move with it. And I want, in the hushed moments when the nameless draws near, to be among the wise ones – or alone.[Ich will meinen Willen und will meinen Willen begleiten die Wege zur Tat; und will in stillen, irgendwie zögernden Zeiten, wenn etwas naht, unter den Wissenden sein oder allein.]

For it is in the nature of man to endure patiently the necessity of things but not the ill will of others.[Car il est dans la nature de l’homme d’endurer patiemment la nécessité des choses, mais non la mauvaise volonté d’ autrui.]

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.

Do ever what ye will – but first be such as can will.[Thut immerhin, was ihr wollt, – aber seid erst Solche, die wollen können!]

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.