Quotes
Quotes about Will
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.]
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
A man gift will make a way for him.
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
