Abraham Quotes

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

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

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

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.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.