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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices

acquired by age eighteen.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Strive not to be a success,

but rather to be of value.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving.

We cannot solve our problems

with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I learned a great many years ago

that in a fight between husband and wife,

a third party should never get between

the woman's skillet and the man's ax helve.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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.

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.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to

those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,

it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,

deserted by all the world beside,

and I standing up boldly and lone

and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

If there is anything that a man can do well,

I say let him do it.

Give him a chance.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

He has a right to criticize,

who has a heart to help.

It has been my experience that folks

who have no vices have very few virtues.