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.]

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

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.

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.

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he read more

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility.

All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

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.