Financial-freedom Quotes

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.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work.

We are all

born ignorant

but one must work hard

to remain stupid

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Character is what you are in the dark.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling

ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Give a girl the right shoes,

and she can conquer the world.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,

night and day,

to make you everybody else,

means to fight the hardest battle.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,

one must above all be a sheep oneself.

They say President Wilson has blundered.

Perhaps he has,

but I notice he usually blunders forward.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

Better it is to live one day

seeing the rise and fall of things

than to live a hundred years without ever seeing it.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

You see,

God helps only people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.

History repeats itself,

first as tragedy,

second as farce.