Quotations and Poems

» “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

»  ”Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

»  ”Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas

»  ”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

»  ”Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”
– Dale Carnegie

»  ”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 T. 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, that’s another matter.”
– Peter F. Drucker

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

»  ”The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
– Robert Frost

»  ”To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.”
– James A. Froude

»  ”Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.”
– Thomas Fuller

»  ”Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
– Thomas Fuller

»  ”Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

»  ”Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”In oratory the will must predominate.”
– David Hare

»  ”Man has will, but woman has her way.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

»  ”To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery.”
– Richard Hooker

»  ”People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
– Victor Hugo

»  ”Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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

»  ”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.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”Man was predestined to have free will.”
– Hal Luyah

»  ”It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
– Douglas Macarthur

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

»  ”Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

»  ”Will is character in action.”
– William Mcdougall

»  ”Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
– Addison Mizner

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

»  ”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.”
– George S. Patton

»  ”In great things it is enough even to have willed.”
– Sextus Propertius

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

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

»  ”Who wills the end, wills the means.”
– Proverb

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

»  ”Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
– English Proverb

»  ”A boy’s will is the will of the wind.”
– Norse Proverb

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

»  ”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.”
– Ronald Reagan

»  ”All things must; man is the only creature that wills.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

»  ”The will of man is his happiness.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

»  ”Will it, and set to work briskly.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

»  ”Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

»  ”The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Our bodies are our gardens… our wills are our gardeners.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Will and intellect are one and the same.”
– Baruch Benedict de Spinoza

»  ”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.”
– Marcia Wieder