Abraham Lincoln Quotes #1

Abraham Lincoln Quotes:

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” 

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― 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

“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― 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

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
― 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

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

 “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“No man is poor who has a Godly 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 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

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
― 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 insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― 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

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
― Abraham Lincoln,

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln