Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Browse 27 quotes from Abraham Lincoln, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only what's left by those who hustle.”
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend of him.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.”
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
“'President Lincoln, you need to destroy your enemies.' 'Madame, when I make my enemies my friend, have I not destroyed my enemies?'”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
