Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
RespectAutonomyEnjoyment All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
PerspectivePublic LifePrivate Life A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
HumilityFaithGuidanceStruggle I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
GoodnessMoralityConscience When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
VisibilityOpportunityConnectionAdvantage I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
TruthDeceptionReality You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Popular SovereigntyGovernmentRightsRevolution This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
ScriptureDivine GiftGuidance In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.
DeterminationPerseveranceSuccess I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
EducationImportance Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
BetrayalTrustFriendshipLoyaltyDeception I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.
HustleEffortInitiative Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
HonestyIntegrityVocationEthics Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
Human NatureChangeActionLimitation Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
Divine WillConflictHuman Purpose The will of God prevails In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God Both may be, and one must be, wrong God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
PurposeFaithCourageFearlessnessTrust And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
Human NatureConstancyDuality Human nature will not change In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
SuccessFriendshipBeliefLoyaltyMotivation I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Education and LaborProductivitySocietal Sustenance The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
PerseveranceEffortDetermination I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
TruthHonestyIntegrityAccountability I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
LibertyDefinitionInterpretation The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
DemocracyChoiceConsequenceAccountability Elections belong to the people It's their decision If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Self-SufficiencySustainable LivingSimple Living The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
CharacterReputationAuthenticityPerception Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Positive ImpactLegacyGrowthKindness I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
FaithDutyCourageJustice Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
ControlAcceptanceHumility I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
PeaceCharityJusticeHealingPerseverance With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
FriendshipUnityReconciliationMemoryAffection We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
HumilityWorthDivine WillAbundance Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
FreedomSobrietyJusticeIdealism The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
LibertyEqualityNationFoundation Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
SilencePrudenceDiscretion Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
LibertyPreservationHeritageSpirit Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
IntegrityInner StrengthConscience I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
FriendshipLossPain If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
FaithInjusticeJudgmentDivine Purpose It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.
TruthHonestyFriendship I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
DiscontentmentPerfectionismGrowthSelf-Reflection My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.