Will Quotes

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.