Chartacter Quotes

I was only trying to do what I thought was right,

according to my upbringing and my heart.

We must fight for the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

You become what you believe,

not what you think or what you want.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation,

of your most important asset your health.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended;

yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Buy the ticket,

take the ride.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right;

but it is my constant anxiety and prayer

that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,

but most of them never happened.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

Once you make a decision,

the universe conspires to make it happen.

Automation applied to an efficient operation

will magnify the efficiency.

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.