Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas A. Edison~

QUOTATIONS

"To move the world we must first move ourselves." - Socrates
"Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening... You!"
- John Assaraf
"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." - Sylvester Stallone
"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Don't just dream it. Be it!" - Richard O'brian
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
-Bessie Anderson Stanley
"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true."
- James Allen
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden
"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward
what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing
it to master you." - Brian Tracy
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start
each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will
tend to be pleasant and successful." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflectsit."
- Edith Wharton
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." - Henrik Ibsen
"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
- Robert Half
"The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe,
your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves the way to a
solution." - Dr. David Schwartz
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

QUOTATIONS

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. - Anthony Robbins

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. - Richard M DeVos

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
- Ruth Renkel

What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Edison

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.” —Brian Tracy (b. 1944); author, motivational speaker

It's not what you gather, but what you scatterthat tells what kind of life you have lived

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ”
—Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965),

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses. ”
—Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890);critic, journalist, and novelist

“Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful...have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.”
—Charles Lazarus; trumpeter, composer

“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
—Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) spiritual leader, author, physician

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970); author

“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.” —Herbert A. Otto; author

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928); poet

“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” —Og Mandino (1923-1996); essayist, psychologist

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes (1807-1882); poet

Justifying a fault doubles it. - French ProverbIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English Philosopher

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. - Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French Novelist

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. - Hippocrates

He who hesitates is lost. Proverb

It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Unknown

“If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the River of Greatness is always the Stream of Adversity.
—Cavett Robert (1907-1997); founder of the National Speakers Association

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust. - Garrison Wynn

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
—William James (1842-1910), psychologist, philosopher, author

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
—Joshua J. Marine

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984, Indian Prime Minister

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. - Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American Poet and Historian

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” —Ben Okri (b. 1959); poet, novelist

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Abraham Lincoln

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.”
—Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author, revolutionary, pamphleteer

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.- John Wooden

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George Patton

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
—Anthony Robbins (b. 1960); self-help writer, speaker

“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.” —Robert Collier (1885-1950)

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.- Theophrastus

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.- Carin Hartness

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” —Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

“There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.”
—Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958); inventor, engineer

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
—Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), author, publisher

“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.”
—Jeffrey Bryant (b.1965); author

“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”
—Ralph Marston; author and publisher of The Daily Motivator

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight... When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ”
—Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”
—William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604
The values we live by are worth morewhen we pass them on.
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004); psychiatrist, educator

“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” —Earl Gray Stevens

“Confidence...thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president

“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” —Alan Alda (b.1936); actor, screenwriter, director

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
—Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
—Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
—Anthony Robbins (b. 1960); self-help writer, speaker

“I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.”
—Mother Teresa (1910-1997), founder of the Missionaries of Charity

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
—John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960); philanthropist, businessman

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself. ” —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
—Les Brown; motivational speaker, author

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
—Victor Hugo (1802-1885); poet, novelist, playwright

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
—Victor Borge (1909-2000); comedian, pianist

“A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.”
—Carolyn Birmingham

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
—Bill Cosby (b. 1937); actor, comedian, television producer

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
—Nora Roberts (b. 1950), fiction author

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); author, poet, essayist

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919); poet, writer

“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
—Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author, Nobel Prize winner

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
—Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist

“Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
—George Santayana (1863-1952); philosopher, poet

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
—W. Clement Stone (1902-2002); author, businessman

“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.” —John D. MacDonald (1916-1986); author

“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) playwright, political activist

PEARLS OF WISDOM

The more you read, the more you discover your ignorance.
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
The most common of crimes is killing of time.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know yourself.
The most useless thing you can give is excuse.
The most important single ingredient formula of success knows how to get along with the people.
The nearer you come to God, the more you feel peace.
Time is devourer of all things.
Time wasted is life wasted.
Time is the scarcest source and unless it is managed, nothing can be managed.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt impossible.
To be good only yourself is to be good for nothing.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed with a razor.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it.
To become wise, always supervise your thoughts.
To conquer one self is a greater task than conquering others.
To do little is bad, to do nothing is worse.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
To enjoy good health, avoid anxiety, anger and greed.
To express our love at the Creator, we must love HIS creation.
To gossip is a fault; to libel a crime; to slander a sin.
To lengthen the life, lessen the meals.
To handle yourself use your head, to handle others use your heart.
To live afresh each day without the conflicts of yesterday, would make us better people.
To make friends, be friendly with others.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digestion.
The oil of bhakti feeds the lamp of the Lord seated in our heart.
The only way to get best of an argument is to avoid it.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The only way to have real friends is to be one your self.
The planting of a tree is worth the prayers of the whole year.
The richest person is one who is content with whatever he posses.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
The secret of education lies in respecting others.
The silent calm people will manifest a more enduring form of success than those who are noisy and restless.
The source of happiness is within us.
The thinner your waist-line, the longer your life-line.
The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone.
The tongue has no bones but it can break many.
The tongue is a rope by which many hang themselves.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others but none thinks about him/her.
The true art of memory is the true art of attention.
The truth is always the strongest argument.

Memorable Quotes.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you!' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform." - Mark Victor Hansen
"Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements." - Mark Victor Hansen
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
- Emily P. Bissell
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." - Les Brown
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One man with courage is a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." - Scott Reed
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!" - Jim Ryun
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S.Eliot
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean.It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."
- G.K. Chesterton
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Mother Theresa

Memorable Quotes.

"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet." - German Proverb
"They can because they think they can." - Virgil
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,we make the world." - Buddha
"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."
- Henry Ford
"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives." - Anthony Robbins
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." - James Allen
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins
"Begin with the end in mind." - Dr. Stephen Covey
"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy

Pearls Of Wisdom

Do less criticizing and pay more attention to complimenting.
Do less talking and pay more attention to silence.
The adventure of life is learning.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.

Memorable Quotes

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears." - Native American Proverb
"Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work." -Jeune McIntyre.
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
- Oprah Winfrey
"People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do." - UnknownAuthor
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay
"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life."
- Billy Mills
"Be yourself. The world worships the original." - Ingrid Bergman
"There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"We will either find a way, or make one!" - Hannibal

MEMORABLE QUOTATIONS

"The harder something to achieve, the more greater the reward and satisfaction." -Unknown
"Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you cannot erase it." -Unknown
"Turn difficulties into learning opportunities." - Unknown
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been,but what we yearn to be." - Jose Ortega Gasset
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." - Erma Bombeck
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise." - Lao Tzu
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"Life can only be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards." - Unknown

Pearls of Wisdom

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. - Joseph Joubert.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis.
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use – Ruth Gordon.
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you will be the way you act. – George W. Crane.
We lie the loudest, when we lie to ourselves.
Life without affection is like a tree without blossoms or fruits. – Kahlil Gibran.
I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today. – Sheldon S. Maye.
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. – Brian Traycy.
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill.
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi.
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. – Benjamin Franklin.
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play. – Tom Hopkins.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. – George Santayana.
You don’t pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. – Zig Ziglar.
People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. – Howard Newton.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow.
Smooth roads never make good drivers. Smooth sea never makes good sailors. Clear skies never make good pilots.
Problem- free life never makes a strong person.
Do less acquiring and pay more attention to what you already have.
Do less criticizing and pay more attention to complimenting.
Do less talking and pay more attention to silence.
The adventure of life is learning.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. – Jawaharlal Nehru.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. – Plato.
The greatest lesion in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Winston Churchill.
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us is every thing. – Blaise Pascal.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. – Francis Bacon.
Either write some thing worth reading or do some thing worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the times. – Robert half.
The most valuable of all the talents is never using two words when one will do.
– Thomas Jefferson.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is the time to reform.
– Mark Twain.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. – Norman Vincent Peale.
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. – Anon.
Life is what we make it, always will be. – Grandma Moses.

QUOTATIONS

Some of the Inspiring Quotes which tell not to give up in life so you can learn something from these Quotes
1) Never expect things to happen. Struggle and make them happen. Never expect yourself to be given a good value, create a value of your own
2) If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where you would shine.
3) Falling down is not defeat but defeat is when your refuse to get up...
4) Ship is always safe at shore... but is not built for it
5) When you are successful, your well wishers know who you are. When you are unsuccessful you know who your well wishers are.
6) It is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell his/her
7) "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world
8) "Even the word 'IMPOSSIBLE' says 'I M POSSIBLE' "
9) Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.
May God Bless You All,
Never take some one for granted, Hold every person Close to your Heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones." Remember this always in life.”

QUOTATIONS by Abraham Lincoln

QUOTATIONS by Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Whatever you are, be a good one.
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilzation.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. –
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.