Abraham Quotes
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be he must be.
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.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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.
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.
It’s a truth I love you, It’s a hope you do, And may I live and die with it, Not knowing that you don’t.
Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".
Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow.
I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past.
To the people of EarthI see mercy in my lovers eyesI feel Heaven in her armsAnd i have found God dwells in her soul When i watch the full MoonThe moon mimics and whisper her name
