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.