WILL
"A
man can do all things if he but wills them."
-- Leon Battista Alberti
"...let
us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat
to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty
is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history,
in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess,
we have the power to save humanity from this shameful
scourge. Let us summon the will to do it."
-- Kofi
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The
test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he
goes to work,
but in the excellence of the work he produces.
-- Thomas Aquinas
"There
is not great talent without great will power."
-- Honore de Balzac
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Do
we have the will to make poverty history?
-- Bono
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"The
will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement.
It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties.
It is the power that rules minds, men and nations."
-- Thomas Parker Boyd
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What
is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling
of the urge to do something positive with the willingness
to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions
lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger …
-- Harry
Chapin
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"Non-violence
is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for
the timid or weak … Non-violence is hard work. It
is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience
to win."
-- Cesar
Chavez
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"Great
souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."
-- Chinese Proverb
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What
matters is the people. We must ensure that the United
Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects
the will of the people.
-- Anwarul
Chowdhury
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"Free
will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand
that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your
hand is free will."
-- Norman
Cousins
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“We
have a complete void of progressive politics in this
country right now. The will of the people goes ignored
and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can
enter the political system, a strong third party. We
need to consolidate.”
-- Ani
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"Nothing
can withstand the power of the human will
if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent
of its purpose."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
No
one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously
willing to have it ...
Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly
droughts to dry up.
Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual
hospitality.
-- Harry Emerson Dosdick
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"Strength
does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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"The
essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the
willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics,
and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.
Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
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"America
has the technology and resources to meet all its energy
needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The
urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At
least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it."
~ Denis
Hayes
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"People
do not lack strength, they lack will."
-- Victor Hugo
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Bear
in mind this sacred principle, that though the will
of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will
to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority
possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect,
and to violate would be oppression.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
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"This
world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of
life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a
quality of imagination, a predominance of courage
over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over
the love of ease."
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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"The
will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare
to win."
-- Bobby Knight
The
final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other
men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-- Walter Lippman"
Will
is character in action."
-- William McDougall
"Life
is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;
the way you play is your own will."
-- Jawaharlal
Nehru
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We
have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing
in our students and our schools. We must make sure
that people who have the grades, the desire and the
will, but not the money, can still get the best education
possible.
-- Barack
Obama
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then
they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the
will, they soon become inevitable.
-- Christopher
Reeve
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"Determination
is the wake-up call to the human will."
-- Anthony Robbins
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We
are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of
replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate,
of remaking our engineered institutions, including
our corporations, into living systems.
-- Elisabet
Sahtouris
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"The
purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion
and the will to help others."
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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"All
things must; man is the only creature that wills."
-- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine
what you desire, you will what you imagine and at
last you create what you will."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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"You
are what your deep, driving desire is. As your deep, driving
desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is
your destiny."
-- Upanishads"
Willingness
is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come
true.
"I can't" often means "I won't." You can change "I won't"
to "I will" with will power."
-- Marcia Wieder
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I
feel like we are at a time of great creativity if
we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage
the will of our imaginations and imagine another way
of being in the world.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams
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