Will-power

Born to a comfortable middle-class existence, he evades the stark class realities of Elizabethan society and conquers the literary world through Will-power, re-creating the lives of kings, queens and courtiers simply by deploying his superabundant imagination.

Sunday Reading 2007

It was diligently imitative of the best literary models of the day; of heart-to-heart-talk advertisements, “sales-pulling” letters, discourses on the “development of Will-power,” and hand-shaking house-organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of

Babbit 2004

Will-power is partly an inheritance and partly an acquisition.

Balzac 2003

It was not wholly the unsought responsibility, the burden of the wealth, the memory of his mother that buttressed his determination to refuse this stupendous thing, it was also his fierce, vehement desire to escape the enforced compliance with that still living Will-power.

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

Will-power, directed by a mind that was often replenished, accomplished the desired result.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

Will-power is partly an inheritance and partly an acquisition.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

Your Will-power enables you to prove things practically to yourself and to the world; to make actions match-thoughts.

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

Courage, and ruthless Will-power; let the weak perish and help them to perish; let the gentle, meek, and humble submit to the harsh and proud; let the shiftless and incapable die; the world is for the strong, and the strongest shall be ruler.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

The requisite qualities that form valuable adjuncts to Will-power are:

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

Will-power is the most potent factor in giving a satisfactory solution of the problem of vitality.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler