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900 Inspirational President Lincoln Quotes On Leadership

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


11. “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. ”


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


13. “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. ”


14. “‘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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


25. “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.” 


26. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


34. “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. ”


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


36. On learning that other’s success is not the lack of your own


37. “Every head should be cultivated. ”


38. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


45. 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


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


47. “As president, Lincoln was an intelligent communicator. He was careful about what he said, and he thought before he spoke.” 


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


49. “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


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


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


52. “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. ”


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


54. “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


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


56. “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. ”


57. “Prosperity is the fruit of labor. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


67.  "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


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


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


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


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


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


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


74. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


83. “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


84. “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. ”


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


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


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


88. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


100. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


112. “Be excellent to each other.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


123. “Everybody likes a compliment. ”


124. “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. ”


125. 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


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


127. He kept the US united and freed black Americans from slavery


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


143. 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


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


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


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


147. “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. ”


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


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


150. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. · 2. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be 


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


166. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


171. “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


172. 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


173. “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. ”


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


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


176. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


182. “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.”


183. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


190. “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”. ”


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


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


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


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


195. “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.”


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


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


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


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


200. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


218. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


223. “Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.” 


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


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


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


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


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


229. “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. ”


230. “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


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


232. “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


233. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to 


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


235. “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” 


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


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


238. “Messages are more often “heard” when the communicator is honest, sincere, and succinct. In other words, say what you mean, and mean what you say.” 


239. 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


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


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


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


243. “articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid;”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


286. “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.”


287. 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


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


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


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


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


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


293. “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. ”


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


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


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


297. “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


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


299.  “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


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


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


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


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


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


305. “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.”


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


307. “Achievement has no color. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


325. “Someday, I shall be President. ”


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


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


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


329. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


337. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


346. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ” · 7. Whatever you are, be a good one. · 11. “ 


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


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


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


350. ” “The best way to destroy an enemy 


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


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


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


354. “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


355. 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


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


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


358. “The best leaders never stop learning.” ― Donald T. Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times · 4 likes · Like.


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


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


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


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


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


364. “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


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


366. On how powerful friendship can really be


367. “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


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


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


370. “Every head should be cultivated.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


378. “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. ”


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


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


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


382. “We cannot escape history.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


399. “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. ”


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


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


402. “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.”


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


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


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


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


407. ” 42. “I do the very best I know how, 


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


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


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


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


412. “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


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


414. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


425. “Achievement has no color.”


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


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


428. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


457. “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. ”


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


459. “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. ”


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


461. “We cannot escape history. ”


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


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


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


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


466. - Abraham Lincoln. I appreciate this first quote for ...


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


481.  “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


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


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


484. “The best leaders never stop learning.” 


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


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


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


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


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


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


491. “...with malice toward none.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


506. 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


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


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


509. “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


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


511. “Prosperity is the fruit of labor.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


518. “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. ”


519. A house divided against itself cannot 


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


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


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


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


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


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


526. “If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they’ll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.” 


527. “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.”


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


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


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


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


532. “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. ” — Abraham Lincoln


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


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


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


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


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


538. “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


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


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


541. “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


542. “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


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


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


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


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


547. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


564. “Everybody likes compliments.”


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


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


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


568. “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


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


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


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


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


573. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to 


574. “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. ”


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


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


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


578. “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.”


579. “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.”


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


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


582. “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


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


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


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


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


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


588. . . Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give 


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


590. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


596. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


606. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


616. 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


617. “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.”


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


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


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


621. “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


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


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


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


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


626. “‘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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


637. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


642. “Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ”


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


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


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


646. 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


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


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


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


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


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


652. “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


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


654.  “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


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


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


657. “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?”


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


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


660. 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


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


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


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


664. ” Abraham Lincoln, More Quotes And Sayings. 1. “The dogmas 


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


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


667. 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...


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


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


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


671. “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. ”


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


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


674. “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


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


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


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


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


679. 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


680. “Pettiness, spite, and vengeance are emotional reactions considered to be beneath the dignity of a leader.” 


681. “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


682. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


690. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


698. “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.” 


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


706. 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


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


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


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


710. “will pay attention to the role of stories [and] myths . . . .” 


711. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


717. “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.”


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


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


720. “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. ”


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


722. “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. ”


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


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


725. “Be excellent to each other. ”


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


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


728. 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


729. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


744. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


752. “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


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


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


755. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


764. “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”


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


766. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


773. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


781. “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.”


782. On learning that all people have good and bad traits


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


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


785. “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


786. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


803. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


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


809. “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.”


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


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


812. “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.”


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


814. “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.” 


815. “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. 02.


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


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


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


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


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


821. “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


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


823. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


830. “Everybody likes compliments. ”


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


832. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


837. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


848. “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. ”


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


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


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


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


853. “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


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


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


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


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


858. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


872. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


881. “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


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


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


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


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


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


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


888. “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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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