Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
41 quotes.
Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
- All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.
- Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
- Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
- I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
- I have been driven many times to 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.
- I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
- If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
- Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
- 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.
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.
- That government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
- The fact is, I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No — when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!
- The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- 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.
- The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- 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.
- With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
- Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
- You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold that desire with singleness of purpose.
- You cannot fail unless you quit.
- You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.