A Quote by Seneca the Younger

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

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Along Fate Leads Reluctant Willing

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

Francois Rabelais

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Zoltan Kodaly

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

Lady Gregory

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

Eugene Delacroix

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Horace

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

Jim Rohn

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alexander Pope

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Charles Dickens

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Seneca the Younger

The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.

Cheo Hodari Coker

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.