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  If you want something badly enough, you can find the means to get it.
• where there's a will, there's a way
  where there's a will, there's a way

  If one really wants to do something, one can. For example, Max has no idea of how to get the money to repair his boat, but where there's a will. This proverb was stated slightly differently in 1640 (To him that will, ways are not wanting) but has been repeated in its present form since the early 1800s. It is so well known it is often shortened, as in the example.

Where there's a will, there's a way

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1. If you want something badly enough, you can find the means to get it.

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where there's a will, there's a way Idioms  

1. If one really wants to do something, one can. For example, Max has no idea of how to get the money to repair his boat, but where there's a will. This proverb was stated slightly differently in 1640 (To him that will, ways are not wanting) but has been repeated in its present form since the early 1800s. It is so well known it is often shortened, as in the example.

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way to achieve far more successful recycling rates than the dismal performance in New York and most of the country.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2010

"Where there's a will, there's a way," she mused, as she went to her room upstairs.

From Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

Where there's a will, there's a way, you know.'

From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"Where there's a will there's a way, you know."

From The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

It must have been a very difficult task, but you know what you have often heard, "Where there's a will there's a way."

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

And where there’s a will, there’s a way.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2026

I’m just hoping where there’s a will, there’s a way.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2025

Indeed, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

He argued that all too often, promises made at global summits were not met, but he insisted that "where there's a will, there's a way".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023

Ahem!" said the squire, sagely; "where there's a will there's a way.

From Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Horatio Alger