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

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The world is a dangerous place to live;

not because of the people who are evil,

but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature

opposition to it is his love of justice.

These principles are an eternal antagonism;

and when brought into collision so fiercely,

as slavery extension brings them,

shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged

that all men will ever act correctly,

unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

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 ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to

those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,

it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,

deserted by all the world beside,

and I standing up boldly and lone

and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

If there is anything that a man can do well,

I say let him do it.

Give him a chance.

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.

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.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place,

then stand firm.

While children are struggling to be unique,

the world around them is trying all means to make them

look like everybody else.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow,

half hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

You see,

God helps only people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.