Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Abraham Lincoln

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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  • Today
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• I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

  

  Maimonides
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  • Body
  • Substance

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
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  • Men
  • Woman

• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Down
  • Dinner

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
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• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Myself
  • Like
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• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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  • Consistent
  • Simply

• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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  • Therapy

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Understanding

• I've always been a procrastinator.

  

  Kris Allen

• I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Branch

• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Men
  • True