Force Of Will Quotes

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  El amor es la única fuerza capaz de transformar a un enemigo en amigo.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Amor, Amistad, Cambio

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). "Un don de amor: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings", p.50, Beacon Press.

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• If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Needs, Arms, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). "La unidad comunal"

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• We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Baby, Powerful, Path

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• Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.

  Jesse Michaels

  Writing, Ego, Revision

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• If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Believe, Add, Pounds

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• Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Inspirational, People, Sometimes

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• The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, War, Discipline

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• Aún no confiamos en los poderes desconocidos del pensamiento. ¿De dónde vinieron todas estas herramientas, inventos, leyes de libros, partidos, reinos? Del mundo invisible, a través de unos pocos cerebros. Las artes y las instituciones de los hombres se crean a partir del pensamiento. Los poderes que hacen al capitalista son metafísicos, la fuerza del método y la fuerza de la voluntad hacen el comercio, y construyen ciudades.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Arte, Libro, Hombres

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• The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Air, Water, Dizzy

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Heroic

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• Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329-

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, T Shirt, Shirts

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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• People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  People, Goal, Wire

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• Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

  Christine Feehan

  Rocks, Together, Shattered

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• As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.

  Sylvia Day

  Eye, Air, Becoming

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.17, Penguin

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?" "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies.

  Veronica Roth

  Children, Apology, Men

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• ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Space, People, Together

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• Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Country, Suffering, Tragedy

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