Will
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
-- Victor Hugo
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- The education of the will is the object of our existence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
-- Seneca
- Where there's a will, there's a way.
-- English Proverb
- Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
-- Addison Mizner
- He who is firm in will molds the world to himself
-- Johann Wolfgang von Coethe
- To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
-- James A. Froude
- Will is character in action.
-- William McDougall
- Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
-- Chinese Proverb
Wisdom
- The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
- Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
-- John Stuart Mill
- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
-- John Patrick
- Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
-- William Wordsworth
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James
- Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
-- Euripides
- Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
-- Felix Frankfurter
- It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
-- William Blake
- Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
-- William Wordsworth
- Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
-- Turkish Proverb
- Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit
- A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
-- Lord Chesterfield
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
-- William Hazlitt
- If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
-- François de La Rochefoucould
- He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
-- Samuel Johnson
- To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
-- André Maurois
- The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
-- Noel Coward
- Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
-- William Penn
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woman
- And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!
-- John Ruge
- There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
-- Judith Anderson
- The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
-- John Barrymore
- Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
-- Elliot Paul
- On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
-- H. L. Mencken
- She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
-- Edmund Burke
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
-- Joseph Conrad
- One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
-- Oscar Wilde
- A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
-- Rudyard Kipling
- Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
-- Lin Yutang
- You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.
-- James Matthew Barrie
- A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
-- Louis Nizer
Wonder
- All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
-- Samuel Johnson
- As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
-- Charles Morgan
- The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
-- Aristotle
- Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
-- William Cowper
- Wonder is the basis of worship.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein
Word
- Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
-- Jules Renard
- A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-- Henrik Ibsen
- Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
-- Julian Sorrell Huxley
- Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
-- Confucius
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
-- Anatole France
- It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-- Robert Southey
- Eating words has never given me indigestion.
-- Winston Churchill
- "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
-- Lewis Carroll
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
-- William Shakespeare
- One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
-- Voltaire
- The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
-- Charles H. Parkhurst
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
-- Herbert Hoover
Work
- The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent.
-- Aboth, 2:15
- I do not like work even when someone else does it.
-- Mark Twain
- Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
-- Bertie Charles Forbes
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
-- Joseph Conrad
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie
- Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
-- Ulysses S. Grant
- The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
- Work is love made visible.
-- Kahlil Gibran
- I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
- Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
-- Don Herold
- Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
-- Eric Hoffer
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-- Vince Lombardi
World
- The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.
-- Kin Hubbard
- This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.
-- T. S. Eliot
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
-- Thomas Paine
- We can only change the world by changing men.
-- Charles Wells
- The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
-- Finley Peter Dunne
- In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
-- Dean Rusk
- Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
-- Immanuel Kant
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
-- John Locke
- He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- One real world is enough.
-- George Santayana
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