Quotes
Quotes about Will
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. [Lat., Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post pucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habetit humus.]
If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
