Quotes of Will - somelinesforyou

“ We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ”

- Aesop

“ A man can do all things if he but wills them. ”

- Leon Battista Alberti

“ All things must; man is the only creature that wills. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ The one who wills is the one who can. ”

- Unknown

“ What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. ”

- Robert Lindner

“ Who wills the end, wills the means. ”

- Unknown

“ Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are our gardeners… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If wishes were fishes, we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses, we'd all ride. ”

- Doug Horton

“ Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ”

- Addison Mizner

“ And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ 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. ”

- Confucius

“ Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ A willing heart adds feather to the heel. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Barkis is willin'. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ”

- Edward Young

“ He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I wish they would only take me as I am. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ”

- Hesiod

“ You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting. ”

- Ovid

“ Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Will and intellect are one and the same thing. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. ”

- Robert Herrick

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

- Samuel Johnson
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