Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, left an indelible mark on history with his leadership, integrity, and profound wisdom.
Beyond his monumental achievements in preserving the Union and abolishing slavery, Lincoln’s legacy endures through his timeless words of inspiration and guidance.
In this blog post, we embark on a journey to explore the depth of Lincoln’s wisdom by delving into some of his most memorable quotes.
From eloquent expressions of resilience and perseverance to poignant reflections on justice and equality, Lincoln’s words continue to resonate with people across generations.
Join us as we uncover the profound insights and enduring relevance of Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable quotes, offering timeless lessons for navigating life’s challenges and embracing the essence of humanity.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
2. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
3. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
4. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
5. I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
6. Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
7. I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If I’m wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won’t make a difference.
8. A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
9. Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
10. No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
11. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
12. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
13. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
14. Its better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
15. To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
16. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it’s best to let him run.
17. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
18. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
19. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
20. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
21. No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
22. Too big to cry too young to laugh…
23. It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
24. I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
25. No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
26. Achievement has no color
27. A tendancy to melancholy…let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
28. I believe that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
29. Avoid popularity if you would have peace
30. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.
31. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
32. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
33. If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
34. Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself.
35. To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all – but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
36. And this, too, shall pass away.
37. I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
38. All I have learned, I learned from books.
39. Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
40. I am nothing, truth is everything.
41. Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
42. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
43. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
44. I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
45. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
46. America will never be destryed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
47. My father taught me to work, but not 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.
48. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
49. With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it’s a useful little chap.
50. IF you are going to fight, don’t let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don’t let them talk you into fighting.
51. Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
52. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
53. 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, and beer.
54. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
55. A house divided cannot stand.
56. You can lose everything in life,but not dreams.
57. Whatever you are, be a good one.
58. I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
59. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
60. I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.
61. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
62. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
63. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
64. Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
65. People who have no vices, have very few virtues.
66. A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall
67. Must is the word… You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not… Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.
68. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
69. Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
70. I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down…
71. Teach the children so it won’t be necessary to teach the adults.
72. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
73. You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
74. Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition
75. Everybody likes compliment.
76. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, “It’s a slip and not a fall.”
77. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
78. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
79. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
80. I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
81. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
82. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
83. Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
84. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
85. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
86. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
87. Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me.
88. Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
89. I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.
90. It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
91. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
92. There can be glory in failure and despair in success.
93. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
94. I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
95. Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.
96. The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.
97. 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.
98. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
99. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
100. But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
101. You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice
Because the thorns have a rose.
102. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
103. You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
104. A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
105. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
106. No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
107. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
108. A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.
109. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
110. I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
111. I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them
112. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
113. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
114. Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
115. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
116. The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
117. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
118. When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
119. if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.
120. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
121. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
122. Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
123. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
124. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
125. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors
126. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
127. Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
128. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
129. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
130. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
131. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
132. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
133. Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
134. The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
135. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
136. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
137. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
138. The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
139. There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
140. I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
141. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
142. Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
143. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
144. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition… I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
145. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
146. We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
147. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world…enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
148. 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.
149. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also.
150. 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.
151. Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
152. If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
153. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
154. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
155. The most altruistic man is the most selfish.
156. It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
157. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
158. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
159. I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
160. The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.
161. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
162. If you think you can you can, if you think you can’t you’re right!
163. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
164. I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
165. One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
166. If I do good, I feel good…If I do bad, I feel bad
167. My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
168. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
169. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
170. Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
171. Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.
172. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
173. If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance
174. If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
175. Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
176. Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
177. If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
178. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
179. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
180. When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn’t doing the exact same thing.
181. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
182. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
183. I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
184. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
185. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
186. Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
187. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
