“Folks are usually about
as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a
good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Do I not destroy my
enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be
destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it
will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“My Best Friend is a
person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“And in the end it is not
the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand
adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“My concern is not whether
God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for
God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I'm a success today
because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart
to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel
good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who deny freedom to
others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln
“We can complain because
rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone
arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him
personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I
never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who look for the
bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad
pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I can see how it might be
possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but
I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say
there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like that man. I
must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When you reach the end of
your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet
in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If I were two-faced,
would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am not bound to win,
but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to
live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“All that I am or ever
hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree
and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the
tree is the real thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather be a
little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that
your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool some of the
people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but
you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many
times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no
where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed
insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is poor who has a
Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Avoid popularity if you
would have peace”
― Abraham Lincoln
“To remain as I am is
impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Towering genius disdains
a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story...
It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however
illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible,
it will have it...”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If we take habitual
drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an
advantageous comparison with those of any other class.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“We shall need all the
anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and
try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you
like about me, if that will help... When the hour comes for dealing
with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost
my life.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am naturally
anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The struggle of today, is
not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent
and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Without the assistance of
that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot
fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be
everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be
well.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Let me not be understood
as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not
arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I
mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad
laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still,
while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be
religiously observed.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing in this world is
impossible to a willing heart.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Resolve to be honest at
all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest
lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The way for a young man
to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that
anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion
and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may
sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they
will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true
channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if
this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall
into it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can lose everything
in life,but not dreams.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I may be wrong in regard
to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is
better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon
as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to
renounce them.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am approached with the
most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are
equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that
either the one or the other is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps
in some respects both. I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say
that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a
point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal
it directly to me; for, unless I am more deceived in myself than I
often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in
this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it! These are
not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted
that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I must study the plain,
physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible and learn what
appears to be wise and right.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“A nation that does not
honor its heroes will not long endure.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Don't believe everything
you read on the Internet.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“It is not best to swap
horses while crossing the river.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Any people anywhere,
being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and
shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them
better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right,
which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If you would win a man to
your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When you have got an
elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to
let him run".”
― Abraham Lincoln
“In your temporary failure
there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a
more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others,
who have entered college more easily.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Fellow-citizens, we can
not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will
be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or
insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial
through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the
latest generation.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If we magnified our
successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much
happier”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You may deceive all the
people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not
all the people all the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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