Abraham Lincoln Quotes

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

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

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. Abraham Lincoln

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

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew. Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment. Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Abraham Lincoln