Motivational Quotes

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Never stir up litigation.

A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Never regret what you don't write.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration

that if at the end...

I have lost every other friend on earth,

I shall at least have one friend left,

and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The time comes upon every public man

when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

These men ask for just the same thing,

fairness, and fairness only.

This, so far as in my power,

they, and all others, shall have.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Any people anywhere,

being inclined and having the power,

have the right to rise up,

and shake off the existing government,

and form a new one that suits them better.

This is a most valuable

a most sacred right a right,

which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,

I spend one third of my time thinking about

myself and what I am going to say and two

thirds about him and what he is going to say.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

If there is anything that a man can do well,

I say let him do it.

Give him a chance.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.