Quotes
Quotes about Will
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy swelling-place-- O, to abide in the desert with thee!
Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
God will pardon me. It is his trade.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.
