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

We can't solve problems by using

the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The world is a dangerous place to live;

not because of the people who are evil,

but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

No problem can be solved from the

same level of consciousness that created it.

It's not that I'm so smart,

it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I'm not sure about the former.

Learn from yesterday,

live for today,

hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If I like a thing,

it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I was born and have ever remained in

the most humble walks of life.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

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 so far as the government lands can be disposed of,

I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so

that every poor man may have a home.

I can express all my views on the slavery question

by quotations from Henry Clay.

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.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature

opposition to it is his love of justice.

These principles are an eternal antagonism;

and when brought into collision so fiercely,

as slavery extension brings them,

shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.