Quotes
Quotes about Will
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was givenâall these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they areâchaff and grain togetherâcertain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest awayâ¦.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
