ABRAHAM LINCOIN /QUOTATIONS
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
2-Whatever you are, be a good one.
3-Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
4-America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
5-And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
6-My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
7-Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
8-Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
9-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.
10-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.
11-When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
12-Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
13-How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
14-Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
15-We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses
16-Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
17-I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
18-When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
19-If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
20-I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
21-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.
22-Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
23-There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
24-All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
25-Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
26-Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
27-No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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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.
29-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.
30-Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
31-I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
32-The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
33-I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
34-I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
35-Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
36-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.
37-Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
38-It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
39-No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
40-I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
41-I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being
42-It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
43-He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
44-You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it
46-The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
47-I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
48-I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
49-I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
50-If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
51-Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe
52-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.
53-All I have learned, I learned from books.
54\The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
55-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.
56-It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
57-I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
58-You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
59-To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
60-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.
61-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.
62-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.
63-No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
64-The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.
65-We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
66-The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
67-You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
68-Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.
69-I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
70-Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.
71-My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
72-The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I haven’t read.
73-Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
74-Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
75-Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
76-The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
77-As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
78-Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
79-Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
80-A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
81-You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
82-You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
83-Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
84-Life is hard but so very beautiful.
85-I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
85-Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
86-No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
87-You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
88-We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God’s side