Abraham Lincoln’s Memorable Quotes – Inspiring Wisdom from a Great Leader
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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.
Abraham Lincoln’s Memorable Quotes – Inspiring Wisdom from a Great Leader part 2
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.
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.
