where there is a will, there is a way
where there is a will, there is a way is the alternative form of where there is a will there is a way.
Meaning of where there is a will there is a way
Proverb
where there is a will there is a way
- If someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found to make it happen.
- [I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely...1724, Pharmacopolæ Justificati: Or, Apothecaries Vindicated from the Imputation of Ignorance. Wherein is Shown, that an Academical Education is No Way Necessary to Qualify a Man for the Practice of...
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