Motivational Quotes

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

No man is good enough to govern another man

without the other's consent.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought

not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Discourage litigation.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of

being a good man.

There will still be business enough.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A woman is the only thing

I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

No matter how much cats fight,

there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,

for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the

wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Plainly,

the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

You have to do your own growing no matter

how tall your grandfather was.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,

it is simply purgatory.

If this is coffee,

please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?

I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.

It cannot come from abroad.

If destruction be our lot,

we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

As a nation of freemen,

we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.

They have clung to me all my life.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.