Will is the dynamic form of consciousness.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The dynamo of all your powers
is volition, or will power.
-Yogananda
Will is the power of consciousness
turned towards effectuation.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Will is the directive power of consciousness.
-John Randolph Price
Intention is directed will.
-Gerald Epstein
Will in use is nothing more than focused intent.
-Lucille Cedercrans
Will is power
ready for concrete expression.
-Dane Rudhyar
Real will is power,
not merely composed of various often contradictory desires
belonging to different I's
but issuing from consciousness and governed by...a single permanent I.
-George Gurdjieff
The will is essentially the activity of the self
which stands above the multiplicity...
The will is like the conductor of an orchestra.
-Roberto Assagioli
The whole man is summed up in his Will.
-William Walter Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
Whatever the will commands
the whole man must do.
-Robert South
Will is the sum total of our personal power
and a subtle energy which can alter the explicate order.
-Joseph Chilton Pearce
Will is character in action.
-William McDougall
Will power is only the tensile strength
of one's own disposition.
-Cesare Pavese
Willpower is the key to all other powers.
With the cultivation of it,
one can open doors to all other latent powers.
-Santideva
Will-Power is the propulsive energy.
-William Walter Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
A man can do all things
if he but wills them.
-Leon Battista Alberti
He who has a firm will
molds the world to himself.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Will is stronger than fact;
it can mold and overcome fact.
-H. G. Wells
Nothing can resist a will
that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Victory is a thing of the will.
-Ferdinand Foch
The method one uses
has only a relative importance in itself;
it is the will to obtain a certain result that is important.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
Who wills the end,
wills the means.
-Proverb
Where there's a will,
there's a way.
-Proverb
Will is the energy prompting to action,
and while it is attracted and repelled by outside objects,
we call it desire.
-Annie Besant
It is said that desire is a product of the will,
but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
-Denis Diderot
Will is the essence of desire,
a heightened form of desire.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
The human will is intensity of desire
raised to the level of action.
-John Bradshaw
Will is the summation of desire,
the strengthening of desire,
the urge to achieve, to express one's desire, and acquire.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
The will has to be cultivated
just like you would cultivate a garden.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The more willpower you use,
the more you have to use.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
So also is the will strengthened,
the more it is exercised.
-Damodar K. Mavalankar
Life in this world is a gymnasium
for the exercise of the will.
-William Walter Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
Will with such intensity, such sincerity,
that every obstacle disappears.
-Aurobindo Ghose
All the lack that we find in life is the lack of will,
and all the blessing that comes to us comes by the power of will.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
To will truly,
you must unify your being.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
Will is the fuel
which carries awareness through all areas of the mind.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters,
and intellect and feeling are only important
insofar as they contribute to that.
-Evelyn Underhill
Unless to Thought is added Will,
Apollo is an imbecile.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will and Intellect
are one and the same thing.
-Baruch Spinoza
The measure of one's will
is one's ability to choose and direct one's thoughts
according to a known purpose.
-Lucille Cedercrans
This concentration of his energies into a single force,
held in suspense within him in leash ready for outrush, is Will.
-Annie Besant
Effort of attention
is the central phenomenon of will.
-William James
Will is developed by the power of attention.
-David Frawley
The action of will
exists only when there is choice.
-Jiddu Krishnamuri
An act of will is not effort alone;
it is choice - the choice of one belief over another belief.
-Piero Ferrucci
Will means apply to one's life -
even in the small, insignificant circumstances -
the values in which one believes most.
-Piero Ferrucci
Genuine will is the capacity to say yes 100 percent,
without doubts or compromises - be it to ideas, possibilities, or people -
and also to say no with equal strength,
because wrong moves are much more numerous than right ones.
-Piero Ferrucci
The good or ill of a man
lies within his own will.
-Epictetus
Mankind is made great or little
by its own will.
-Friedrich von Schiller
By the will art thou lost,
by the will art thou found,
by the will art thou
free, captive and bound.
-Angelus Silesius
The nature of will-power differs only according to
whether it exists in its fullness, or whether it is limited.
The will-power in its fullness is divine power;
the will-power in its limited state is the individual will.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The only way to set the Will free
is to deliver it from willfulness.
-Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
The secret of the use of the will is...
closely tied in with the recognition
of the unconquerable nature of goodness
and the inevitability of the ultimate triumph of good.
-Alice Bailey
The will is a creator.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The will is the pivotal point
round which revolve the issues of destiny.
-William Walter Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
When you are able to employ your will
always for constructive purposes,
you become the controller of your destiny.
-Yogananda
Everything is generated
through your own will power.
-Ray Bradbury
Everything in this world
depends upon will.
-Benjamin Disraeli
