Cheaper Quotes

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.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon

realize that space is being created in your life

for something new to emerge.

I've learned you are never too small to make a difference.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I think if we go back and check our record,

the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than

patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

We can’t help everyone,

but everyone can help someone.

Peace begins with a smile.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me

with a sling shot.

The secret of genius is to carry

the spirit of the child into old age.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

The wealth of information now available at

the click of a finger amazes me.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

Independence is happiness.

If anything is worth doing,

do it with all your heart.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Concentration is my motto — first honesty,

then industry,

then concentration.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.

He wants to reform the world.

When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,

but he knows he can't.

I try to learn from the past,

but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.