Will Quotes

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

You may delay, but time will not.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

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.