Will Quotes

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

You may delay, but time will not.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.