Abigail Adams Quotes

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

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

~ 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.

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ Abigail Adams

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

~ Abigail Adams

The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving.

~ Abigail Adams

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 necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ 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.

~ Abigail Adams

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent thing to me, (were it so, I should look forward with a heavey Heart,) but it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those faults which you discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Example I may form a more faultless conduct, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot amend.

~ Abigail Adams

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ Abigail Adams

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

~ Abigail Adams

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

~ 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.

~ Abigail Adams

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

~ Abigail Adams

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ 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

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

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ Abigail Adams

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

~ Abigail Adams

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.'

~ 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.

~ 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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

~ Abigail Adams