Will Quotes

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.