10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

The only reason for time is

so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with important matters.

Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,

but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for

the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.

When it is said that the institution exists,

and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way,

I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

If a man had more than one life,

I think a little hanging would not hurt this one;

but after he is once dead,

we cannot bring him back,

no matter how sorry we may be;

so the boy shall be pardoned.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

Let the people on both sides keep their self possession,

and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time,

so will this,

and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major general.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

Why was the amendment,

expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery,

voted down?

Plainly enough now,

the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche

for the Dred Scott decision.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.