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Will: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.— JOANNA BAILLIE — De Montfort. Act III. Sc. 2.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto III. L. 547.

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 — Analects. Bk. IX. Ch. XXV.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.— EPICTETUS

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Calvinism. The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. J. C. AND A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. The readinesse of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.— HERRICK — Hesperides. Readinesse.

A boy's will is the wind's will.— LONGFELLOW — My Lost Youth.

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.— LONGFELLOW — The Light of Stars. St. 7.