Browsing Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me 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.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ve been driven to my knees by the overwhelming knowledge that I had to admit that I had nowhere else to go.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!