Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States. Profoundly inspirational Abigail Adams quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

Famous Abigail Adams 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. Abigail Adams

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. Abigail Adams

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

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Abigail Adams

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. Abigail Adams

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

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

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

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

My bursting heart must find a vent in my pen. Abigail Adams

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. Abigail Adams

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Abigail Adams

Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams

Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active. 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

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods. Abigail Adams

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

A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible. 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

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

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

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. Abigail Adams

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

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

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

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what. Abigail Adams

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind. Abigail Adams

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents. Abigail Adams

Business once lost, does not easily return to the old hands. Abigail Adams

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

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

To be attentive to our guests is not only true kindness, but true politeness. Abigail Adams

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

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

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. Abigail Adams

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

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Abigail Adams

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

I desire you to Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Abigail Adams

Gardening in England is a hobby, about midway on the social scale between throwing darts and composing sonnets. Abigail Adams

Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams

How is it possible, that the love of gain and the lust of domination should render the human mind so callous to every principle of honor, generosity, and benevolence Abigail Adams

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen, and Philosophers, we should have learned women. Abigail Adams

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific nation, that great characters are formed.  The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Abigail Adams

If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principles which are instilled take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. Abigail Adams

And now let me ask you, my friend, whether you do not think that many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. 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

Dark and sour humors, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls. Abigail Adams

Public business, my son, must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not. Abigail Adams

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community. Abigail Adams

If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value. Abigail Adams

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. Abigail Adams

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. Abigail Adams

Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Abigail Adams

Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. Abigail Adams

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. Abigail Adams

The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. Abigail Adams

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Abigail Adams

The smell of the midnight lamp is very unwholesome. Never defraud yourself of sleep, nor your walk. Abigail Adams

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

Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books. Abigail Adams

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

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do. Abigail Adams

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Abigail Adams

Virtue is not always amiable. Abigail Adams

Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams

The prospect now before us in America ought  to engage the attention of every man of learning to matters of power and right, that we may be neither led nor driven blindfolded to irretrievable destruction. Abigail Adams

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

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. Abigail Adams

It’s never too late to get back on your feet though we won’t live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for. Abigail Adams

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. Abigail Adams

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

Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. Abigail Adams

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. Abigail Adams

The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies. Abigail Adams

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