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“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside — a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“The world is independent of my will.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Answering to this, all religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“A true man does what he will, not what he must.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“And Beasts that have Deliberation must necessarily also have Will.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“All is not lost—the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners;” William Shakespeare, Othello
“Where others have failed, I will not fail.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“The will of man is by his reason sway'd; And reason says you are the worthier maid.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought that it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: His will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“At the other extremity of the circle, unanimity recurs; this is the case when the citizens, having fallen into servitude, have lost both liberty and will.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“the processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...” Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address
“Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Where will wants not, a way opens” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.” Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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