Quotes by Abigail Adams

About Abigail Adams:

Abigail Adams is now designated the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not in use at the time.
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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

Abigail Adams

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Abigail Adams

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

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

Abigail Adams

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

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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.

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

Abigail Adams

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

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Abigail Adams

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

Abigail Adams

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

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These are the 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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great neces...

Abigail Adams

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

Abigail Adams

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.

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The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Abigail Adams

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

Abigail Adams

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAbigail Adams
  • Description2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
  • AliasesAbigail Smith
  • BornNovember 22, 1744
  • DiedOctober 28, 1818
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame