750 Inspirational Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Leadership

1. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln, president

2. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln

3. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

4. “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.”

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

6. “To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

7. Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln

8. “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”

9. “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

10. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. — Abraham Lincoln

11. “There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” – Abraham Lincoln

12. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” –Abraham Lincoln

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

14. “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.”

15. “I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.”

16. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. — Abraham Lincoln

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

18. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -Abraham Lincoln

19. “The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

20. If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. — Abraham Lincoln

21. “It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”

22. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

23. “Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.”

24. In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. — Abraham Lincoln

25. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln

26. “Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”

27. “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” — Abraham Lincoln

28. “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

29. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

30. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. — Abraham Lincoln

31. “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”

32. “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

33. “Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

34. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. —Abraham Lincoln

35. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~Abraham Lincoln

36. “Life is hard but so very beautiful.”

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

38. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.—Abraham Lincoln

39. “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

40. “I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil somebody.”

41. “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” ― Abraham Lincoln

42. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

44. “Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

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

46. “I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

47. “A tendency to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

48. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

49. “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” – Abraham Lincoln

50. “If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance”

51. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

52. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

53. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

54. “Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

55. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President

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

57. “I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”

58. “There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”

59. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”—Abraham Lincoln

60. “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” – Abraham Lincoln

61. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”- Abraham Lincoln

62. “Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

63. “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.” — Abraham Lincoln

64. “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

65. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”― Abraham Lincoln

66. “‘Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.’ Abraham Lincoln” [Tweet this]free christian leadership training

67. “As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”

68. “Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

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

70. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

71. “Everybody likes a compliment.”

72. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

73. “Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.”

74. “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?”

75. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln

76. “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”

77. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln

78. “I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.” Happy Birthday, Mom! – Abraham Lincoln

79. “The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”

80. “My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch anything on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

81. “I walk slowly, but never backwards.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

82. “What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?” — Abraham Lincoln

83. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed. – Abraham Lincoln

84. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

85. “President Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

86. “Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

87. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

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

89. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother- Abraham Lincoln

90. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” — Abraham Lincoln

91. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln

92. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.”

93. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” – Abraham Lincoln

94. My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

95. “I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”

96. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

100. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

101. “Sir, 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

102. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

103. “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

104. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

105. “A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”

106. “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

107. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

108. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.“

109. “I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.” — Abraham Lincoln

110. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

111. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

114. “Abraham Lincoln dijo: “El carácter era como un árbol y la reputación como su sombra. La sombra es lo que pensamos de él; el árbol era lo verdadero”.”

115. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough.” – Abraham Lincoln

116. “I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” — Abraham Lincoln

117. “Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.” —Abraham Lincoln. For even more inspiration, read up on the most powerful quotes about life.

118. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. — Abraham Lincoln

119. “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

120. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln

121. “All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.”

122. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

123. “I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.” –Abraham Lincoln

124. “If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end…”

125. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln

126. “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” — Abraham Lincoln

127. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln

128. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

129. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

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

132. “When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.”

133. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”

134. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

135. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

137. “It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”

138. “Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”

139. “The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

140. “Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

141. “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

142. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. - Abraham Lincoln

143. “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Abraham Lincoln

144. “He has a right to criticise, who has the heart to help.”

145. “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” – Abraham Lincoln

146. “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” – Abraham Lincoln

147. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” ―Abraham Lincoln

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

149. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. — Abraham Lincoln

150. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards” ~ Abraham Lincoln

151. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

152. I will prepare and someday my chance will come. — Abraham Lincoln

153. “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, American politician and 16th president of the United States.

154. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” — Abraham Lincoln

155. “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

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

157. “You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.”

158. “The legitimate object of government is to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, for at all, or do so well, for themselves.”

159. “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” —Abraham Lincoln

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

161. “The best way to predict your future is to create it”

162. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

163. “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.”

164. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” Abraham Lincoln

165. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. —Abraham Lincoln

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

167. 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

168. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

169. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

170. I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...

171. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

172. “Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”

173. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

174. Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

175. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.“

176. “Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.”

177. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” – Abraham Lincoln

178. “Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

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

180. Here Abraham Lincoln is comparing his religion to just being a good person, that is just as simple as that.

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

182. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

183. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

184. “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

185. And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. — Abraham Lincoln

186. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” —Abraham Lincoln"

187. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

188. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”

189. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

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

191. Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln

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

193. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln

194. In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man. — Abraham Lincoln

195. “A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

196. “All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

197. “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” — Abraham Lincoln

198. “And this, too, shall pass away.”

199. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

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

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

202. “If we could first know where we are, and whether we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

203. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

204. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” — Abraham Lincoln

205. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

206. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing” – Abraham Lincoln

207. “When I’m getting ready to reason with a man I spend one third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say—and two thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.”

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

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

210. “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” — Abraham Lincoln

211. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

212. “The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man’s course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.” — Abraham Lincoln

213. “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

214. “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

215. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

216. “As Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

217. “If you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

218. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln

219. “Sir, 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.”

220. “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.”

221. “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”

222. “Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.” — Abraham Lincoln

223. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

224. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln

225. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

226. “I have a congenital aversion to failure.” — Abraham Lincoln

227. “The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”

228. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. -Abraham Lincoln

229. “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

230. The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

231. “I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.” ― Abraham Lincoln

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

233. “Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.” — Abraham Lincoln

234. “Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” — Abraham Lincoln

235. “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

236. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”– Abraham Lincoln

237. “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

238. “A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ⁠⁠—Abraham Lincoln

239. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

241. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”

242. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

243. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

244. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. — Abraham Lincoln

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

246. Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln

247. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln

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

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

250. “Every head should be cultivated.”

251. "Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

252. “No man is poor who has a godly mother.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

253. “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

254. “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

256. “Force is all conquering, but its victories are short lived.”

257. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” Abraham Lincoln

258. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.“

259. I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln

260. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

261. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”– Abraham Lincoln

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

263. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. — Abraham Lincoln

264. “If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.” — Abraham Lincoln

265. "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."-Abraham Lincoln

266. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” Abraham Lincoln

267. “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

268. “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

269. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

270. 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. — Abraham Lincoln

271. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

272. No man is poor who has a godly mother.” ― Abraham Lincoln

273. “It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”

274. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

275. “I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.” — Abraham Lincoln

276. “Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.” — Abraham Lincoln

277. “Important principles may and must be inflexible.”

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

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

280. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

281. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real fact.” – Abraham Lincoln

282. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

283. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

284. “America will never be destroyed from the outside."—Abraham Lincoln

285. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

286. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

287. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” — Abraham Lincoln

288. “There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.”

289. “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

290. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

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

292. “I do the very best I know how – the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

293. “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.”

294. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. — Abraham Lincoln

295. “I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”

296. “I don’t care what people talk behind my back until they speak the truth.” -Abraham Lincoln

297. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

298. “Everyone desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

299. “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.” — Abraham Lincoln

300. “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens. you can never regain their respect and esteem.” –Abraham Lincoln

301. As Abraham Lincoln once said, if we magnified our successes as much as we magnified our disappointments, we’d all be much happier.

302. “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

303. “No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.” — Abraham Lincoln

304. The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

305. A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

306. “It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

308. “I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

309. “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

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

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

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

313. “I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

314. “If you are going to fight, don’t let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don’t let them talk you into fighting.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

316. “No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.”

317. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” —Abraham Lincoln

318. On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been. When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that 'all men are created equal' a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim 'a self evident lie.' — Abraham Lincoln

319. “You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”

320. “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” -Abraham Lincoln

321. “For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.” — Abraham Lincoln

322. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. — Abraham Lincoln

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

324. If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. —Abraham Lincoln

325. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln

326. “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”

327. “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

328. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ― Abraham Lincoln

329. I do the very best I know how–the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. — Abraham Lincoln

330. “Whatever you are. be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

332. “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

333. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

334. “I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.”

335. “The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.” — Abraham Lincoln

336. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln

337. If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the result is good, then I do not care for any criticism, but if the result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. -Abraham Lincoln

338. “I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”

339. “In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.” — Abraham Lincoln

340. “I am nothing, truth is everything.”

341. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

342. “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln

343. “Laws change; people die; the land remains.” – Abraham Lincoln

344. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln

345. “An age is just a number. It’s the life in your years that count.” – Abraham Lincoln

346. “Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.” ― Abraham Lincoln

347. Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” — Abraham Lincoln

348. “If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

349. “If i had a nine hours to chop down a tree, i’d spend first xis sharpening my axe – Abraham Lincoln” and “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change – Stephen Hawking”. These are two quotes that i’m gonna frame into my office. Just loved all of them, am like confused what and how many of them should i paint at my workspace. Thank you so much Ashley.

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

351. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust. ” —Abraham Lincoln

352. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

353. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln

354. “No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

356. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

358. “He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln

359. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

360. “With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

361. “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” Abraham Lincoln

362. “Be excellent to each other.”

363. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln

364. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

365. “Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

366. “I am not bound to win. but I am bound to be true.” – Abraham Lincoln

367. “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.”

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

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

370. “I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”- Abraham Lincoln

371. “I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by saying, God bless the women of America!” — Abraham Lincoln

372. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. — Abraham Lincoln

373. “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” — Abraham Lincoln

374. “Achievement has no color.”

375. “The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

376. “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

377. “To sin by quietness when they should fight makes defeatists of men.” – Abraham Lincoln

378. “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

379. “What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln

380. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

381. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. — Abraham Lincoln

382. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” –Abraham Lincoln

383. Monday Motivation: Abraham Lincoln

384. “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” — Abraham Lincoln

385. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

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

387. “My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

388. “Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. ” — Abraham Lincoln

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

390. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” – Abraham Lincoln

391. “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

392. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” — Abraham Lincoln

393. “A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

394. “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

395. “The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

396. “When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

397. “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser–in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” — Abraham Lincoln

398. “All I have learned, I learned from books.”

399. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

400. “Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

401. “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln

402. “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

403. “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

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

405. “There are great things to be done, and I am with you to do them.”- Abraham Lincoln

406. “In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

407. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” — Abraham Lincoln

408. “There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

409. “I listen to everybody. but most of the time I learn not to do” – Abraham Lincoln

410. “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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln

411. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.“

412. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

413. I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln

414. “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” — Abraham Lincoln

415. “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

416. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

417. “And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

419. “If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.” — Abraham Lincoln

420. “I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.” — Abraham Lincoln

421. “I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

423. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” — Abraham Lincoln

424. “We cannot escape history.”

425. “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

426. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” –Abraham Lincoln

427. “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”

428. “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

429. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

430. “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side.”

431. “These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others shall have.”

432. “When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”

433. “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

434. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Abraham Lincoln

435. “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

436. “I do the very best I know-how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” – Abraham Lincoln

437. “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”

438. “No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”

439. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

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

441. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

442. “‘Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.’ Abraham Lincoln”free christian leadership training

443. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

444. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

445. “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

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

447. “I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

448. “Let’s have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

449. “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

450. “We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.”

451. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. - Abraham Lincoln

452. The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln

453. “Everybody likes compliments.”

454. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

455. 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

456. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

457. “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

458. “Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” — Abraham Lincoln

459. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

460. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln

461. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

462. “I have a congenital aversion to failure.”

463. “I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do” – Abraham Lincoln

464. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln

465. Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln

466. “Anxiety beclouds the future.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

469. “I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.”

470. My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

472. “Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.” — Abraham Lincoln

473. “That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

474. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln

475. “The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.” — Abraham Lincoln

476. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

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

478. “Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”

479. “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” — Abraham Lincoln

480. "The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”― Abraham Lincoln

481. “Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.” — Abraham Lincoln

482. Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln

483. “A chair that reclines is mighty fine.”

484. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. –Abraham Lincoln

485. I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln

486. “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

487. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. —Abraham Lincoln

488. “I am always for the man who wishes to work.”

489. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ― Abraham Lincoln

490. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln.

491. “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

492. “If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.”

493. "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln

494. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

495. “The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.”

496. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln

497. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” – Abraham Lincoln

498. “The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?”

499. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them." Abraham Lincoln

500. The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln

501. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” - Abraham Lincoln

502. “Bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ”- Abraham Lincoln

503. “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

504. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

506. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

507. “I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

508. “The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

509. “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

510. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

511. “Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

512. “Abraham Lincoln: A long career ruled by honesty” (Great American History)

513. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

514. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” —Abraham Lincoln

515. “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

516. “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

517. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”

518. "I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln

519. “If we never try, we shall never succeed.”

520. “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.” ―Abraham Lincoln

521. “I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to be all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln

522. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln

523. “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

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

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

526. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

527. “Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

528. “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

529. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”

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

531. “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” —Abraham Lincoln

532. “Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

533. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” – Abraham Lincoln

534. “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

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

536. “I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”

537. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ” – Abraham Lincoln

538. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

539. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln

540. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” ~ Abraham Lincoln

541. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ―Abraham Lincoln

542. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln

543. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

544. “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” — Abraham Lincoln

545. “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

546. "Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

547. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

548. “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

549. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

550. “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

551. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abraham Lincoln

552. The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

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

554. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

555. “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”

556. “The people, when rightly and fully trusted, will return the trust.” – Abraham Lincoln

557. “Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

558. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. —Abraham Lincoln

559. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

560. “If you would win a man to your cause first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

561. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

563. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

564. “Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

565. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.. — Abraham Lincoln

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

567. “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.”

568. “Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

569. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

570. 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

571. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln

572. “You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.”

573. “There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”

574. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

575. “A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.”

576. “This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

577. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” –Abraham Lincoln

578. “You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.” — Abraham Lincoln

579. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln

580. “Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

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

582. “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

583. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln

584. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” — Abraham Lincoln

585. Sir, 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

586. Abraham Lincoln once said, “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” I wish you a lot of blessings today and always. Have a fantastic birthday.

587. “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”

588. “I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.” — Abraham Lincoln

589. “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

590. “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” — Abraham Lincoln

591. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.”

592. “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

593. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

594. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln

595. If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. -Abraham Lincoln

596. “Property is the fruit of labor…property is desirable…is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” — Abraham Lincoln

597. Abraham Lincoln is saying here that your character will always be bigger and better than your reputation, even if you can’t see it.

598. “To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”

599. “I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.”

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

601. “My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” – Abraham Lincoln.

602. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

603. Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart. - Abraham Lincoln

604. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

605. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. –Abraham Lincoln

606. “If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.”

607. “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

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

609. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is wrong.”

610. “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

611. “Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

612. “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

615. I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.” — Abraham Lincoln

616. “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”- Abraham Lincoln

617. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

618. “The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”

619. "I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” — Abraham Lincoln

620. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."—Abraham Lincoln

621. Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart. Abraham Lincoln

622. “I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ” Abraham Lincoln

623. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

624. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

625. “If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced.”

626. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

627. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

628. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

629. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln

630. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

631. “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

632. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- 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

633. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”– Abraham Lincoln

634. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln

635. The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

636. “The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.”

637. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

638. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln

639. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

640. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

641. “The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”

642. “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

643. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln.

644. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. –Abraham Lincoln

645. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln

646. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

648. “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.”

649. "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” — Abraham Lincoln

650. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. — Abraham Lincoln

651. “Someday, I shall be President.”

652. “As Abraham Lincoln said, “We listen to the better angels of our nature so our life will have more order and success.” Vic:”

653. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

654. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” – Abraham Lincoln

655. “The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.” — Abraham Lincoln

656. “I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned.”

657. “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

658. "Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln

659. “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. ” — Abraham Lincoln

660. The best way to predict the future is to create it. —Abraham Lincoln

661. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

662. “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln

663. “If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”

664. “No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

665. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” —Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. president

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

667. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.” — Abraham Lincoln

668. “Let us remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.”

669. “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” — Abraham Lincoln

670. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”

671. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. — Abraham Lincoln

672. “Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

673. “I desire to so conduct the affairs of the administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall have at least one friend left—and that friend shall be down inside of me.”

674. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ― Abraham Lincoln

675. “In a speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the height of the Civil War,

676. “I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

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

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

679. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” — Abraham Lincoln

680. “He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.” —Abraham Lincoln

681. “Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.”

682. “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.”

683. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust” – Abraham Lincoln

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

685. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. . – Abraham Lincoln. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. . – Abraham Lincoln

686. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President

687. “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

688. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

689. “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” — Abraham Lincoln

690. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” — Abraham Lincoln

691. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing” – Abraham Lincoln

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

693. “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.” ― Abraham Lincoln

694. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

695. “I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.” — Abraham Lincoln

696. “If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”

697. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln

698. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

699. “Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

700. “The strongest bond of human sympathy…should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”

701. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

702. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

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

704. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

705. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” -Abraham Lincoln

706. “This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” — Abraham Lincoln

707. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

708. “Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.”

709. “It is the eternal struggle between these two principles—right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ”You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.” – Abraham Lincoln

710. “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.”

711. “I don’t care what people talk behind my back until they speak the truth.” — Abraham Lincoln

712. “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”

713. “I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.” — Abraham Lincoln

714. “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about

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

716. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”― Abraham Lincoln

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

718. I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. — Abraham Lincoln

719. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

721. “I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.”

722. “I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by.”

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

724. “Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

725. “Bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ” ― Abraham Lincoln

726. “Prosperity is the fruit of labor.”

727. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”—Abraham Lincoln

728. “A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” — Abraham Lincoln

729. “Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the most loved president of the United States, was also the most criticized president. Probably no politician in history had worse things said about him. Here’s how the Chicago Times in 1865 evaluated Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address the day after he delivered it: “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of a man who has been pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States.” Time, of course, has proved this scathing criticism wrong. 9.”

730. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

731. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

733. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”- Abraham Lincoln

734. “You can lose everything in life, but not dreams.”

735. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

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

737. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” – Abraham Lincoln

738. “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

739. “President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader”

740. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” ~ Abraham Lincoln

741. “Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.” – Abraham Lincoln

742. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln

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

744. “All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.” — Abraham Lincoln

745. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

747. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. — Abraham Lincoln

748. “Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.”

749. “Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

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