Will Quotes

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

You may delay, but time will not.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.