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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
-Chinese Proverb
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
-English Proverb
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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
-Yiddish Proverb
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When the will is ready the feet are light.
-Proverb
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Who wills the end, wills the means.
-Proverb
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The one who wills is the one who can.
-Proverb
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
-Aeschylus
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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
-Aeschylus
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A man can do all things if he but wills them.
-Leon Battista Alberti
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Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
-Thomas Aquinas
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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
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
-Richard Cecil
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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
-Dante Alighieri
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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
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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 Drucker
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-Robert Frost
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
-James A. Froude
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
-Thomas Fuller
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
-Thomas Fuller
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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
-Johann von Goethe
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
-Johann von Goethe
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Books about Will, Willpower
