Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln
U. S. President & Civil Rights Activist
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
ALTERNATIVE Abraham Lincoln Quotes:
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
“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.”
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“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.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“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.”
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“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.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
