"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."

Willpower, Will, Freedom, Choice, Action

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"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."

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"Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!"

Ellen J. Barrier, American Poet

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"I never fight except against difficulties."

Helen Keller, American Author

Willpower, Fight, Determination, Difficulty, Strength

"Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Willpower, Do, Work, Strength, Ability

"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Willpower, Sleep, Time, Fatigue, Choice

"Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Willpower, Temptation, Life, Struggle

"If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Willpower, Power, Physics, Strength, Control

"It's up to you, not fate."

David Levithan, American Author

Willpower, Choice, Fate, Responsibility, Power

"I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Willpower, Enjoyment, Hunger, Force, Will

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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

Time

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

Nature

"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

Literature

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Nation

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

Talent

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

Happiness

"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."

Gratitude

"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."

Society

"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."

History

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

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