Examples about where there is a will, there is a way: Sima Qian finished the compilation of Historical Records, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, tried hard, Beethoven was deaf but still wrote the immortal symphony No.9, Madame Curie persisted in her research and finally discovered radium, and Lu Xun abandoned medicine and became a literary giant, Helen? Keller was blind but became a famous woman writer.

Where there is a will, there is a way, which is an idiom of Han Yu. This word means that people with lofty aspirations will eventually succeed with their unremitting efforts. This idiom comes from Biography of Geng Yan, a famous historical work in ancient China, and is what Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, said to his famous soldier Geng Yan.

Where there is a will, there is a way. This story tells that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, under the entrustment of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, a general named Geng Yan was ordered to attack Zhang Bu, a local strongman. On the battlefield where the two sides were at war, the struggle was fierce. Geng Yan was accidentally shot in the thigh by an arrow, but Geng Yan didn't care. After cutting off the arrow with his sword, he continued to participate in the battle and finally defeated Zhang Bu. Afterwards, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu praised Geng Yan for "where there is a will, there is a way".