Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

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 up to what light I have.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

The strength of a tree lies in its roots, and the strength of a nation lies in its people.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes part 2

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Whatever you are, be a good one – even if you’re a janitor.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.

The best part of my life is I don’t know when I’m going to die.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

Whatever you are, be a good one – even if you’re a musician.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Sir, 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.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.