Cheaper Quotes

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

I used to be a baker,

but I couldn’t make enough dough.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow,

half hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought

not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The strong creation created

by God in the world is not

the lion, not the elephant,

not the tiger

the girl.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances

communication has profound effects.

I would never allow anyone to give me money,

no difference how badly I needed it,

I wanted literally to earn my living.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A slender acquaintance with the world

must convince every man that actions, not words,

are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The object of oratory

alone in not truth,

but persuasion.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.

It is the only thing.

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.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

I don’t want to be a star,

I want to be a legend.

Man is condemned to be free.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind,

we must therefore stimulate and encourage

that type of mind in every way possible.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.