Will Quotes

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

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.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.