READ TOP ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“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.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”