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Abraham Lincoln Quotes



Quotes by Abraham Lincoln - (23 quotes)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Books category:

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Character category:

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Criticism category:

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Deception category:

You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Friendship category:

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Future category:

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Goodness category:

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Goodness category:

Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Growth category:

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

Abraham Lincoln - From the Happiness category:

You are as happy as you make up your mind to be. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Peace category:

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Pets category:

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Politics category:

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Portraiture category:

I presume, sir, in painting your beautiful portrait, you took your idea of me from my principles, and not from my person. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Preparation category:

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Purpose category:

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Religion category:

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Responsibility category:

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Success category:

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Words category:

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Work category:

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity. Posterity has done nothing for us. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Writing category:

-to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852...
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! (Abraham Lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln - From the Writing category:

The art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye – is the great invention of the world. (Abraham Lincoln)