Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)

 

 

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)

Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.  -- Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. -Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president (1809-1865)

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. --Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln

I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it. -Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -Abraham Lincoln

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

If you look for the bad in mankind, you will probably find it. Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1861-1865)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S (1809-1865)

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)