Motivational Quotes

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

We have the best government that money can buy.

For the record,

I don't worship the devil.

I just hate religion.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

The most dangerous phrase in investing is:

‘This time it’s different.’

Ambition is the path to success.

Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

True education is not merely the acquisition of knowledge,

but the development of character.

Life opens up opportunities to you,

and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

One never notices what has been done;

one can only see what remains to be done.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I don’t believe in luck;

I believe in preparation.

We are stubborn on vision.

We are flexible on details.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

The right word may be effective,

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

I think I'm cool.

That's all that matters.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.