Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“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.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“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.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“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.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“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.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“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.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”