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Quotes about Will


All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A boy's will is the wind's will.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

I take to-day a wife, and my election Is led on in the conduct of my will-- My will enkindled my by mine and ears Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

William Shakespeare

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite That what he will he does, and does so much That proof is called impossibility.

William Shakespeare

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Lord Alfred Epicetus

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Yiddish Proverb

He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Marge Piercy

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Spanish Proverb

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.

Spanish Proverb

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

Spanish Sivananda

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Chinese Proverb

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Spanish Proverb

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

William Shakespeare

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

James A. Froude

Will is character in action.

William Mcdougall

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

John C Seneca

Where there's a will, there's a way.

English Proverb

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