Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and led the country during the American Civil War.
Found 150 thoughts of Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people.That is why He made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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 must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

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: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln
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