Will Quotes

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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.