Will Quotes

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.