Will

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, “At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.”

—Sharon Salzberg

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

—Walter Bagehot

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

—Pope Paul VI

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

—Marcel Duchamp

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

—Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

A will finds a way.

—Orison Swett Marden

Somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Warrior Heir

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks.… I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

—Trieu Thi Trinh

Will is the means by which we overcome the problems that life or genes have handed us. Without it, there is no true character.

—Jacob Needleman

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

—John Wooden