Abraham Lincoln Quotes
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.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
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.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 fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.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
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one.Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors 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
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
Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.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
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.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
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?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
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.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 me.Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.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
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
