Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.
We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
In truth, the path does not matter, the will to achieve is enough.
The will of man is his happiness.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
You can! Just will it!
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
The world is independent of my will.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
