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Will, Willpower

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. – Chinese Proverb

Where theres a will, theres a way. – English Proverb

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. – Yiddish Proverb

When the will is ready the feet are light. – Proverb

Who wills the end, wills the means. – Proverb

The one who wills is the one who can. – Proverb

When a mans willing and eager the gods join in. – Aeschylus

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. – Aeschylus

A man can do all things if he but wills them. – Leon Battista Alberti

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. – Jacob Boehme

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will. – Dante Alighieri

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

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

The education of the will is the object of our existence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. – Thomas Fuller

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. – Johann von Goethe

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. – Johann von Goethe