True line Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Look in the mirror;

that's your competition.

To have a great idea,

have a lot of them.

Life is a song

sing it.

Life is a game

play it.

Life is a challenge

meet it.

Life is a dream

realize it.

Life is a sacrifice

offer it.

Life is love

enjoy it.

Love what you do and do what you love.

If you are out to describe the truth,

leave elegance to the tailor.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,

and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Take up one idea Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I find television very educating.

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room and read a book.

We are born believing.

A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Peace if possible,

truth at all costs.

The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it,

but what they become by it.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and

I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If you keep your eye on the profit,

you’re going to skimp on the product.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous.

We know the court that made it has

often overruled its own decisions,

and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Politics is the art of the possible,

but sometimes the impossible can be achieved.