Abigail Adams Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by Abigail Adams
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“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Society Quotes
Source: in a letter to John Adams
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
Society Quotes
Source: in a letter to John Adams
“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Learning Quotes
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.”
Leadership Quotes
“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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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”
Miscellaneous Quotes