Will Quotes

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.