Quotes and Sayings About Life
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
-- Abraham Cahan -
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
-- Abraham Cowley -
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
