Lincoln Quotes – Insights and Inspiration from the 16th U.S. President

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.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

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 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.

Lincoln Quotes – Insights and Inspiration from the 16th U.S. President part 2

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can.

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

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

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

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

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

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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

I am not a lawyer, but I have always wanted to be one, and I would like nothing better than to practice law.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

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

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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

In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.