Will Quotes

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.