Will Quotes

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.

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 will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.