Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.Abraham Lincoln
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.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
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.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
