Ralation Quotes

Lie to anyone

but never

lie to yourself

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Your worth consists in what you are

and not in what you have.

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.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.

Be one.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

If you have a garden and a library,

you have everything you need.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Do the thing we fear,

and death of fear is certain.

I do not believe that the qualities

that make a good judge are gendered.

The people,

and the people alone,

are the motive force in the making of world history.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Life is a succession of lessons,

which must be lived to be understood,

and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if

they were great and noble.