130 Abraham Lincoln Quotes | Life | Inspiration | Freedom

Born: 12 February 1809
Died: 15 April 1865
Country: United States

1.My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
— Abraham Lincoln

2. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
— Abraham Lincoln

3. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
— Abraham Lincoln

4. No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
— Abraham Lincoln
5. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
6. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
7. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
— Abraham Lincoln
8. I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
— Abraham Lincoln
9. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
— Abraham Lincoln
10. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln

11. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
12. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
— Abraham Lincoln
13. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln

14. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
— Abraham Lincoln

15. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
— Abraham Lincoln
16. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
— Abraham Lincoln
17. 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
18. There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
— Abraham Lincoln

19. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
— Abraham Lincoln
20. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
— Abraham Lincoln
21. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
22. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
— Abraham Lincoln
23. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
— Abraham Lincoln
24. 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
25. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
26. My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
— Abraham Lincoln
27. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
28. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
— Abraham Lincoln
29. Whatever you are, be a good one.
— Abraham Lincoln
30. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
31. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
— Abraham Lincoln
32. I am not concerned that you have fallen I am concerned that you arise.
— Abraham Lincoln
33. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
— Abraham Lincoln
34. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
— Abraham Lincoln
35. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
— Abraham Lincoln
36. You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry .
— Abraham Lincoln
37. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
38. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
— Abraham Lincoln
39. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
— Abraham Lincoln
40. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
41. It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
— Abraham Lincoln
42. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Abraham Lincoln
43. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
— Abraham Lincoln
44. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
— Abraham Lincoln
45. Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln

46. I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln
47. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
— Abraham Lincoln
48. All I have learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
49. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
50. My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.
— Abraham Lincoln
51. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
— Abraham Lincoln
52. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
— Abraham Lincoln
53. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
54. 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
55. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
— Abraham Lincoln

56. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
— Abraham Lincoln
57. Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
58. If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
— Abraham Lincoln
59. Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
— Abraham Lincoln
60. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
— Abraham Lincoln
61. Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
— Abraham Lincoln
62. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
— Abraham Lincoln
63. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
— Abraham Lincoln
64. Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
— Abraham Lincoln
65. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
— Abraham Lincoln
66. You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
— Abraham Lincoln
67. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
— Abraham Lincoln
68. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
— Abraham Lincoln
69. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
70. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
— Abraham Lincoln
71. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
— Abraham Lincoln
72. 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
73. No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
— Abraham Lincoln
74. 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
75. From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
— Abraham Lincoln
76. 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
77. When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
— Abraham Lincoln
78. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln
79. 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
80. I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
— Abraham Lincoln
81. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
— Abraham Lincoln
82. A tendancy to melancholy…let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
— Abraham Lincoln
83. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
— Abraham Lincoln
84. Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
— Abraham Lincoln
85. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
— Abraham Lincoln
86. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
— Abraham Lincoln
87. Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
— Abraham Lincoln
88. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
— Abraham Lincoln
89. If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
— Abraham Lincoln
90. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
— Abraham Lincoln

91. You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
— Abraham Lincoln
92. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
— Abraham Lincoln
93. in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
94. A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
— Abraham Lincoln
95. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
— Abraham Lincoln
96. 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
97. Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
— Abraham Lincoln
98. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln
99. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
— Abraham Lincoln
100. Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
— Abraham Lincoln
101. Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln
102. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
— Abraham Lincoln
103. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
— Abraham Lincoln
104. Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.
— Abraham Lincoln
105. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
— Abraham Lincoln
106. Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed.
— Abraham Lincoln
107. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
— Abraham Lincoln
108. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
109. 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
110. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
— Abraham Lincoln
111. Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition
— Abraham Lincoln
112. Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
— Abraham Lincoln
113. I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready.
— Abraham Lincoln
114. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
— Abraham Lincoln
115. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
— Abraham Lincoln
116. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
117. You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
118. Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
— Abraham Lincoln
119. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.
— Abraham Lincoln
120. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world…enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
— Abraham Lincoln
121. Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
— Abraham Lincoln
122. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
— Abraham Lincoln
123. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
— Abraham Lincoln
124. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
— Abraham Lincoln
125. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
— Abraham Lincoln
126. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
— Abraham Lincoln
127. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
— Abraham Lincoln
128. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
— Abraham Lincoln
129. Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln
130. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
— Abraham Lincoln

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