Abraham Lincoln- “Always bear in mind that your own resolutions to succeed is more important than any other thing.”
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man´s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolutions to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
There has never been but one question in all civilization- how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other´s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
No man has good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one.
Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that “a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is a really good one.
Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of exampe they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it´s best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
Abraham Lincoln
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how- the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me woun´t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.
Abraham Lincoln
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate- we can not consecrate- we can not hallow- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Abraham Lincoln