All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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.
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.
Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
All Life needs for life is possible to will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
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.
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. â¢Spanish Proverb Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Will is character in action.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Where there's a will, there's a way.