Will Quotes

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.