Will Quotes

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.