Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

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.

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.

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

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

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

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

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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 only comes one day at a time.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Quotes from Abraham Lincoln part 2

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.

If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

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

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

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

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

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.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I laugh because I must not cry; that is all, that is all.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

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

Every person’s happiness is their own responsibility.