Will Quotes

Epictetus
There is nothing good or evil save in the will. -- Epictetus


Froude, James A.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.


Luther, Martin
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession.


Menander
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.


Pike, Albert
Men are great or small in stature as it pleases God. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy. -- Albert Pike


Pope, Alexander
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.


Shakespeare, William
Lawless are they that make their wills their law. -- William Shakespeare


Sivananda
Will is the dynamic soul-force. -- Sivananda