Quotes
Quotes about Will
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
What will you put in the stocking of the Baby Jesus? screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David's Niven.
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still That others touch, and often touching will Wear gold; and no man that hath a name, By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
Gold will be slave or master.
A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
