Will Quotes

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

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.