Best Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
― Abraham Lincoln
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
― Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
― Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
― Abraham Lincoln
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
― Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
― 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
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
― Abraham Lincoln
When you reach your own rope, tie a knot and hang on.
― Abraham Lincoln
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
― Abraham Lincoln
It does not matter what you do. What matters is how you do it – of your own accord, with your own vision, with your own love. Then whatever you touch becomes gold.
― Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Life
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
― Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
― Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
― Abraham Lincoln
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
― Abraham Lincoln
The best thing that can be in life is friendship.
― Abraham Lincoln
I walk slowly but I never walk backward.
― Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
― Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Slavery
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any abolitionist.
― Abraham Lincoln
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature; opposition to it on his love of justice.
― Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
― Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
― Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
― Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
― Abraham Lincoln
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
― Abraham Lincoln
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
― Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
― Abraham Lincoln
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
― Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just – a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
― Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
― Abraham Lincoln
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
― Abraham Lincoln
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
― Abraham Lincoln
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others.
― Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Leadership Quotes
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
― Abraham Lincoln
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle – the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
― Abraham Lincoln
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.
― Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
― Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
― Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
― Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
― Abraham Lincoln
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
― Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a men’s character, give him power.
― Abraham Lincoln
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
― Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
― Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
― Abraham Lincoln
I can make more generals, but horses cost money…
― Abraham Lincoln
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
― Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
― Abraham Lincoln
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
― Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
― Abraham Lincoln
