24 Greatest Abigail Adams Quotes - 2Quotes
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her passing. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.
Below are 24 Greatest Abigail Adams Quotes:
Abigail Adams Quotes
1. My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
― Abigail Adams
2. We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
― Abigail Adams
3. 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
4. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
― Abigail Adams
5. If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
― Abigail Adams
6. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
― Abigail Adams
7. 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
8. These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues.
― Abigail Adams
9. We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
― Abigail Adams
10. How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.
― Abigail Adams
11. I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
― Abigail Adams
12. I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws, which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. . . . 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
13. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
― Abigail Adams
14. Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
― Abigail Adams
15. If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
― Abigail Adams
16. History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
― Abigail Adams
17. The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
― Abigail Adams
18. Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
― Abigail Adams
19. No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
― Abigail Adams
20. 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.
― Abigail Adams
21. To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
― Abigail Adams
22. May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
― Abigail Adams
23. 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 character is 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
24. We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
― Abigail Adams
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