Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

Topics

FailureGreatYouContentYour

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

John Burroughs

PlantsBirdsLandscapeYouLook

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

Jenny Shipley

DecisionsNewTwoYearsZealand

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

TreatMeaningOthersRightScholar

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.

John Lewis

AgePeopleVotingYouDownPlace

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

Robert Herjavec

JobPeopleThoughtYearDeadNever

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

Stephen Kinzer

HistoryGreatWorldSurviveFall

The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.

Sugar Ray Leonard

ExperienceMeWorldBetterYouWill

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

LifeGoodOpportunityWiseBelieve

In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.

Ronald D. Moore

WorkWifePeopleWorldIsolation

I'm always pushing myself.

Mija

MyselfAlwaysPushing

I did 'Damnation' on USA, and hopefully I keep picking up smaller roles and learn the craft.

Luke Harper

LearnCraftUpKeepSmallerDid

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

Josh Tillman

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