Will Quotes

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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.