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

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

The distinction between the past,

present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature and its beauty.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices

acquired by age eighteen.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Strive not to be a success,

but rather to be of value.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving.

We cannot solve our problems

with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I learned a great many years ago

that in a fight between husband and wife,

a third party should never get between

the woman's skillet and the man's ax helve.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged

that all men will ever act correctly,

unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

If there is anything that a man can do well,

I say let him do it.

Give him a chance.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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.