Will Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.