Hangout Quotes

We must accept finite

disappointment, but never

lose infinite hope.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I don't know who I am,

but I know who I'm not.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.

The other day she looked at my calendar

and wanted to know who May was.

The task of leadership is

not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it.

There is nothing deep down inside us

except what we have put there ourselves

Richard Rorty

We can’t help everyone,

but everyone can help someone.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity

for taking things for granted.

Everyone has in them a piece of good news.

The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!

The cowboy’s life is simple but honorable.

Happiness is never grand.

Leave it as it is.

The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

It is not length of life,

but depth of life.

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.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

it goes on.

Life is about perseverance and embracing who you are.

An idea that is developed and put into action is

more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Men do not shape destiny,

destiny produces the man for the hour.