Will Quotes

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.