Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Browse 23 quotes from Abraham Lincoln, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
“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.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend of him.”
“I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.”
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.”
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
