Will > Will's Quotes

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and the families that serve alongside them, we can always do a little more.”
― Gary Sinise, Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“learn to laugh at yourself.”
― Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

“Presence of mind, and courage in distress, Are more than armies to procure success.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“desperation can also breed unity”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of
physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic (Illustrated Edition): The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Told

“Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage