where there is a will there is a way

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʍɛə ˌðɛəɹ ɪz ə ˈwɪl ðɛəɹ ɪz ə ˈweɪ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɛə-/
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• General-American: /ʍɛɚ ˌðɛɚ ɪz ə ˈwɪl ðɛɚ ɪz ə ˈweɪ/
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• General-American: /wɛɚ-/
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No etymology was provided for this word.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِنَ مَفَاتِيحُ الأُمُورٍ العَزَائِمَ (ʔina mafatiḥu alʔumūri alʕazaʔima) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Basque: non gogoa, han zangoa — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Bulgarian: с воля всичко се постига (s volja vsičko se postiga) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Catalan: voler és poder — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Chinese Mandarin: 有志者事竟成 (yǒuzhìzhě shì jìngchéng) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Chinese Mandarin: 世上無難事,只要肯攀登 /世上无难事 — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Chinese Mandarin: 只要肯攀登 (shìshàng wú nánshì, zhǐyào kěn pāndēng) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Chinese Mandarin: 世上無難事,只怕有心人 /世上无难事 — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Chinese Mandarin: 只怕有心人 (shìshàng wú nánshì, zhǐpà yǒuxīnrén) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Czech: když se chce, všechno jde — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Czech: kdo chce, hledá způsoby, kdo nechce, hledá důvody — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Czech: kde je vůle, tam je cesta — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Danish: hvor der er vilje, er der vej — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Dutch: waar een wil is, is een weg — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Dutch: willen is kunnen — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Esperanto: kion oni volas, tion oni povas — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Finnish: jos tahtoa on, niin keinot kyllä löytyvät — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• French: à cœur vaillant rien d'impossible — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• French: quand on veut, on peut — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• French: vouloir c'est pouvoir — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Galician: querer é poder — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• German: wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• German: wer will, findet Wege, wer nicht will, findet Gründe — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• German: wer will, der kann — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• German: man muss nur wollen — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• German: es ist Platz in der kleinsten Hütte — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Greek: το θέλειν είναι δύναμις (to thélein eínai dýnamis) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Greek: θέλειν εστί δύνασθαι (thélein estí dýnasthai) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Hebrew: אֵין דָּבָר הָעוֹמֵד בִּפְנֵי הָרָצוֹן (’ein davar ha‘oméd bifnei haratzon) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Hebrew: אִם תִּרצוּ אֵין זוֹ אַגָּדָה (’im tirtzu ’ein zo ’aggadah) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Hindi: जान है तो जहान है (jān hai to jahān hai) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Hindi: जहाँ चाह वहाँ राह (jahā̃ cāh vahā̃ rāh) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Hungarian: nincs lehetetlen, csak tehetetlen — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Icelandic: allt er hægt ef viljinn er fyrir hendi — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Italian: volere è potere — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 精神一到何事か成らざらん (seishin ittō nanigoto ka narazaran) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 愚公山を移す (gukō yama o utsusu) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 思う念力岩をも通す (omou nenriki iwa o mo tōsu) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 百姓の息が天に昇る (hyakushō no iki ga ten ni noboru) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 為せば成る (naseba naru) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 蟻の思いも天に届く (ari no omoi mo ten ni todoku) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Japanese: 蟻の思いも天に登る (ari no omoi mo ten ni noboru) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Kapampangan: patie ating buri ating paralan — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Kapampangan: istung mikaburi mikiparalan — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Luxembourgish: wou e Wëllen ass, do ass e Wee — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Malay: di mana ada kemahuan, di situ ada jalan — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Malay: ada padi semua kerja jadi, ada beras semua kerja deras — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Polish: dla chcącego nic trudnego — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Polish: dla chcącego nie ma nic trudnego — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Polish: chcieć to móc — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Polish: chcącemu nic nie trudno, niechcącemu wszytko — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Portuguese: querer é poder — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Russian: бы́ло бы жела́ние, а спо́соб найдётся (býlo by želánije, a spósob najdjótsja) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Russian: где хоте́ние, там и уме́ние (gde xoténije, tam i uménije) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Scottish Gaelic: far am bi toil, bidh gnìomh — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Serbo-Croatian: sve se može kad se hoće — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Serbo-Croatian: gdje ima volje, ima i načina — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Spanish: querer es poder — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Spanish: más hace el que quiere que el que puede — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Swahili: penye nia pana njia — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Swedish: att vilja är att kunna — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Swedish: viljan kan berg — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Swedish: finns det hjärterum så finns det stjärterum — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Tagalog: kapag may gusto, may paraan — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Tagalog: walang matigas na tinapay sa mainit na kape — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Tajik: хостан тавонистан аст (xostan tavonistan ast) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Tamil: மனமிருந்தால் மார்க்கமுண்டு (maṉamiruntāl mārkkamuṇṭu) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Thai: ความพยายามอยู่ที่ไหน ความสําเร็จอยู่ที่นั่น (kwaam-pá-yaa-yaam-yùu-tîi-nǎi kwaam-sǎm-rét-yùu-tîi-nân) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Turkish: iman varsa imkan da vardır — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Ukrainian: де хотіння, там і вміння (de xotinnja, tam i vminnja) — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Vietnamese: có chí thì nên — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found
• Zazaki: taqet esto se rayê zi este — if someone wants or wills something strongly enough, a way can be found