Will Quotes

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.