Welcome to Shall Quotes, your destination for insightful and thought-provoking quotes centered around the theme of ‘shall’. In the realm of language and literature, ‘shall’ holds a unique place, often embodying a sense of obligation, determination, or even prophecy. Whether in classic literature, legal documents, or everyday conversation, the word ‘shall’ carries a weight of meaning that transcends its simple linguistic function.
In this collection, we delve into the diverse manifestations of ‘shall’ across different contexts and perspectives. From timeless literary works to contemporary speeches, from legal decrees to philosophical musings, each quote offers a glimpse into the depth and richness of human expression. ‘Shall’ not only signifies obligation or future certainty but also encapsulates aspirations, promises, and the essence of human agency.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. Ann Landers
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. Sitting Bull
When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight. Lisa Ann Walter
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs. Dante Alighieri
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Georg Fabricius
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Moses
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time… so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, ‘Now! Now!’ and sometime later will vanish. Nostradamus
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. Benito Mussolini
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. Nelson Mandela
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Michel de Montaigne
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover
History will judge me… I shall remain silent. Mobutu Sese Seko
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. Daniel Webster
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. Theodor Herzl
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. Mary Kay Ash
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. Alexander the Great
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. Rosa Parks
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. Edward Kennedy
Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. Friedrich August von Hayek
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. Soren Kierkegaard
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly. J. Robert Oppenheimer
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life. Hudson Taylor
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. Helena Blavatsky
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it. Indira Gandhi
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. E. T. Bell
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail. Martin Luther
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt
As you think, so shall you become. Bruce Lee
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S. Grant
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world. Sukarno
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Khalil Gibran
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. Nicolaus Copernicus
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Jesus Christ
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much – if he lives and uses that in hand day by day – shall be full to running over. Edgar Cayce
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? Franz Kafka
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. Queen Elizabeth II
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet
The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams
The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Marcus Tullius Cicero
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing. William Morris
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. Charles Wesley
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Charles Mackay
Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. Ellen G. White
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F. Kennedy
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. Cesar Chavez
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. Frank Lloyd Wright
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. Joseph Stalin
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. Bob Marley
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions. Jose Rizal
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty
Who seeks shall find. Sophocles
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. Mahatma Gandhi
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot
Our swords shall play the orators for us. Christopher Marlowe
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. Jeremy Bentham
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. Richard Dawkins
I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his. Catherine the Great