Motivational Quotes

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The way for a young man to rise

is to improve himself in every way he can,

never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged

that all men will ever act correctly,

unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

Some single mind must be master,

else there will be no agreement in anything.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I am rather inclined to silence.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

As our case is new,

we must think and act anew.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain

that this nation, under God,

shall have a new birth of freedom

and that government of the people,

by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.