Chartacter Quotes

All I have seen teaches me to trust

the creator for all I have not seen.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

If you want to be happy, be.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

I don't think you ever stop giving,

I really don't,

I think it's an on,

going process,

And it's not just about,

being able to write a check,

It's being able to touch somebody's life.

When I saw you I fell in love,

and you smiled because you knew.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

You can overcome adversity,

but you must work harder than anyone else.

Intellectual growth should commence

at birth and cease only at death.

I will say again that I have never,

and would never,

harm a child.

It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious,

but the desire to reach hearts is wise.

Point your toes!

God has given us two hands,

one to receive with and the other to give with.

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

Being able to admit you’re wrong is a great thing.

I come from there and I have memories.

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.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world

shall emerge into the light.