True line Quotes

Poetry comes from the

highest happiness

or

the deepest sorrow.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen.

Life is about struggle,

but that struggle shapes you.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

The office of president is one of endless responsibility.

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

I hate the giving of the hand

unless the whole man accompanies it.

Life is a difficult game.

You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The youth need to be enabled

to become job generators

from job seekers.

Know your enemy and know yourself,

and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

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

it goes on.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Few things are harder to put up with than

the annoyance of a good example.

Develop an attitude of gratitude,

and give thanks for everything that happens to you.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Unexpressed emotions will never die.

They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Common sense is not so common.

I insist on a lot of time being spent,

almost every day,

just to sit and think.

The task of leadership is

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

Experience teaches you to take responsibility for your actions.