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.

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),

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they that make their wills read more

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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

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

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
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The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.

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.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a read more

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.