Abraham Lincoln Quotes 66 to 87

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

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

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

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

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

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Confidence

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Life

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational Sayings

Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Abraham Lincoln
Trust God

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.”
Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness

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.
Abraham Lincoln
Success

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

Quotes about Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. Nikol Vega Canales, Abraham Lincoln Complete Biography and Quotes
Knowledge

While young Lincoln’s formal education consisted approximately of a year’s worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader and often sought access to any new books in the village. Nikol Vega Canales, Abraham Lincoln Complete Biography and Quotes
Personal Development

For a century or more, generations of Americans were taught to be like Lincoln – forbearing, kind, principled, resolute – but what we’ve really wanted is for Lincoln to be like us, and this has never been truer than the present day. Andrew Ferguson, Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America
Teacher

Only after years of studying the powerful crosscurrents of political and military pressures on Lincoln did I come to appreciate the skill with which he steered between the numerous shoals of conservatism and radicalism, free states and slave states, abolitionists, Republicans, Democrats, and border-state Unionists to maintain a steady course that brought the nation to victory – and the abolition of slavery – in the end. James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln
Appreciation

From his earliest days Lincoln had a sense that his destiny was controlled by some larger force, some Higher Power. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
Destiny

As Abraham became a teenager, he began to distance himself from his father. His sense of alienation may have originated at the time of his mother’s death, when he needed more support and compassion than his stolid father was able to give. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
Compassion

The greatness of Napoleon, Caesar or Washington is only moonlight by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years. . . . He was bigger than his country – bigger than all the Presidents together . . . and as a great character he will live as long as the world lives. Leo Tolstoy, The World
Greatness

That Lincoln, after winning the presidency, made the unprecedented decision to incorporate his eminent rivals into his political family, the cabinet, was evidence of a profound self-confidence and a first indication of what would prove to others a most unexpected greatness. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Decision

Quotes about Abraham Lincoln