Will Henry Quotes
In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?
Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)
Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
