Abraham Lincoln Quotes to Remind You to Always Stand Tall
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith
“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”
― Joe Wheeler, Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
“I never understand these “the south will rise again” people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its ass.”
― T.J. Kirka
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
― 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”
― Abraham Lincoln
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided against itself cannot stand” ― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― 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
“And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“I have a congenital aversion to failure.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement, I have the best of the bargain.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“This is a world of compensations; he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” ― 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.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man’s course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
