Will Quotes

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.