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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers read more
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
