Nothing is easy to the unwilling. [ Proverb ]
The unwilling gratitude of base mankind! [ Pope ]
Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. [ Seneca, from Cleanthes ]
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]
Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling. [ Proverb ]
The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]
One of his hands is unwilling to wash the other for nothing. [ Proverb ]
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent (pledge). [ German Proverb ]
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [ Lowell ]
Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. [ Horace ]
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue. [ Chesterfield ]
They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived. [ Lord Clarendon ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]