Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Querer es poder.»
Word for word
To want is to be able.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Pure motivational shorthand: with enough will, you’ll find the way.
Hear it in a sentence
Aprendió a nadar a los sesenta años: querer es poder.
She learned to swim at sixty — where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.