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• n  resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
• n  the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• In all that he did there was a quality of canny vision, of testy self-will.
• Roosevelt was a man of extraordinary self-will.
• This may be relieved by occasional spasms of presidential self-will, but such erratic outbursts are bound to prove temporary since his refusal to accept the agreed recommendation .

• stubbornness
• bullheadedness
• obstinacy
• obstinance
• pigheadedness
• self-control
• self-possession
• possession
• willpower
• will power
• self-command

News & Articles

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• Waltham Voices: Missed opportunities can weigh heavily
  Living day-to-day really challenges the word “opportunity,” doesn’t it? It’s an interesting word; a wide range of hidden messages. I mean – do things happen by chance, coincidence or just plain self-driven self-will?
  July 24, 2013 - Waltham News Tribune

Quotes

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• Mary Baker Eddy in Christian Science Monitor
  In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, described divine Love as a "universal solvent," which destroys "self-will, self-justification, and self-love" (p.