He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.

He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.

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),

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

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

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., read more

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod
gaudias.]

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he read more

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he will not.
[Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann
nicht, so will er nicht.]

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.