Self-Will Quotes

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.

Everybody from my childhood growing up had to have that confidence, that self-will. Go out there and do something, be something, prove that you're gonna be more than this.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

Even if you have so many people saying, 'Yes, this is for you! This is your path!' unless you feel it... It needs to be your own passion, it needs to be your own will.

It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

I just do whatever I want to do.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.