10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

A man should look for what is,

and not for what he thinks should be.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Pure mathematics is,

in its way,

the poetry of logical ideas.

If we knew what it was we were doing,

it would not be called research,

would it?

Try not to become a man of success,

but rather try to become a man of value.

The only reason for time is

so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I have no special talent.

I am only passionately curious.

Learn from yesterday,

live for today,

hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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).

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.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

In this sad world of ours,

sorrow comes to all;

and to the young,

it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.

I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Some single mind must be master,

else there will be no agreement in anything.

Never stir up litigation.

A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Never regret what you don't write.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

I have great respect for the semicolon;

it is a mighty handy little fellow.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.