Will Quotes

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.