Abigail Adams Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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

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

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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