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A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.

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.

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.

Barkis is willin'!

"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."

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

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

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

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

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers ,

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

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

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

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.