Abigail Adams Quotes

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Great learning and superior abilities will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honour, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.