56 quotes about Will and Will Power

When a man's willing and eager the god's 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.

Alberti, Leon Battista

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

Boehme, Jacob

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Cousins, Norman

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.

Disraeli, Benjamin

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Frost, Robert

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

Froude, James A.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Fuller, Thomas

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Lincoln, Abraham

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Lombardi, Vince

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Reagan, Ronald

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seneca

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

Will and intellect are one and the same.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia