Quotes
Quotes about Will
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay on Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes to rest.
October turned by maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind. [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli; Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
