Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Abraham Lincoln

• Honest
• All Things
• Self-respect

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• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Down

• Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Dancing

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • You
  • Change
  • Stubborn

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Friend
  • Lonely
  • Meeting

• So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Women
  • Home
  • Perfect

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Want
  • Know
  • Cancer

• I love the French horn.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Love
  • I Love
  • French

• It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Real
  • You
  • Adventure

• I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• I love being on the road, I love playing.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Road
  • Playing
  • I Love

• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Great
  • Focus
  • Competition

• There are at least five activities that must be kept in balance through proper time management. This is not easy for a busy executive with significant responsibilities, especially in this world of “information overload.” These five activities are: the job, physical fitness, personal time alone, recreation, and social relationships. Also, if they apply, two others—religion and family. If any of these get out of balance, then life gets out of balance. From my own personal experience and observation of others, being a workaholic is the most common area of imbalance...

  

  Hal Moore
  • Job
  • Balance
  • Management

• Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Honest
  • Stock
  • Anticipation

• Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

  

  V V Brown
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honest
  • All Things
  • Self-respect