Best Quotes Around the World

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I teach children to be winners.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

‚A living dog is better than a dead lion.‘ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Some day I shall be President.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.