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

If people are good only because they fear punishment,

and hope for reward,

then we are a sorry lot indeed.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school.

We can't solve problems by using

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

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.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

If I like a thing,

it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

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.

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.

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.

I can express all my views on the slavery question

by quotations from Henry Clay.