Friend Quotes

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Integrity is telling myself the truth,

and honesty is telling the truth to other people.

We can succeed only by concert.

It is not,

'Can any of us imagine better,' but,

'Can we all do better?'

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

War is what happens when language fails.

These men ask for just the same thing,

fairness, and fairness only.

This, so far as in my power,

they, and all others, shall have.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

I don't care if you're tired.

I'm tired too.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Men are what their mothers made them,

but fathers shape their character.

The heavens and the earth,

the sun and the moon,

the stars and the planets,

all are in us.

Confidence is your best accessory.

Concern for man and his fate must always form

the chief interest of all technical endeavors.

Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If you can’t love yourself,

how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?