Abraham Lincoln on America: “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope…
Abraham Lincoln on persistence: “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Abraham Lincoln on learning: “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.:
Abraham Lincoln on bestowing grace: “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” —Abraham Lincoln
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” —Søren Kierkegaard
“When you have learned something, that always feels at first as if you’ve lost something.” —H.G. Wells
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” —George R.R. Martin
o “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” —Haruki Murakami
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” —G.K. Chesterton
“It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bear Bryant