Unwillingly Quotes

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. - Alfred Russel Wallace

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson

Then He directed Himself to the heaven and it is a vapor, so He said to it and to the earth: Come both, willingly or unwillingly. They both said: We come willingly. - Quran

The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. - William Shakespeare

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. - Elizabeth Bowen

That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. - William Hazlitt

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. - Georg Buchner

No one who errs unwillingly is evil. - Sophocles

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly. - Protagoras

Is it then other than Allah's religion that they seek (to follow), and to Him submits whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returned. - Quran