Alphabet Quotes

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.

My model for business is The Beatles.

Everything around you that you call life

was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

I have no special talent.

I am only passionately curious.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be

feared than a wild beast.

Love the life you live.

Live the life you love.

All my life through

the new sights of Nature

made me rejoice

like a child.

Anything that won't sell,

I don't want to invent.

Its sale is proof of utility,

and utility is success.

Love is not to be purchased and affection has no price.

What gets measured gets managed.

Failure is impossible.

Everyone thinks of changing the world,

but no one thinks of changing himself.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing,

I always tell myself,

'You can do better than this.'

I’m very proud of my net worth.

Let us raise a standard to

which the wise and honest can repair;

the rest is in the hands of God.

It is curious that physical courage

should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The man of genius inspires us

with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Happiness is not something ready made.

It comes from your own actions.