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

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Intellectuals solve problems,

geniuses prevent them.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.

If people are good only because they fear punishment,

and hope for reward,

then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

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.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions,

conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,

than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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 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?

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain

that this nation, under God,

shall have a new birth of freedom

and that government of the people,

by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth.