Best Quotes Around the World

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I want to be an executive producer.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.