Will Quotes

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.