Abraham Quotes
Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.
If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. Theyve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
