We have carefully selected inspirational quotes from Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, who contributed to the abolition of slavery in the United States and is highly regarded as a symbol of democracy and freedom. We hope these quotes of Abraham Lincoln will help you change your thoughts, change your actions, change your life, and change your future.
Quotes of Lincoln 1
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln
Quotes of Lincoln 2
"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" - Abraham Lincoln
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln
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"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln
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"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
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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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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
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"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
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves," - Abraham Lincoln
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." - Abraham Lincoln
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." - Abraham Lincoln
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"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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." - Abraham Lincoln
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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
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"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold." - Abraham Lincoln
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"I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
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"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
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"I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
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"No man is poor who has a Godly mother." - Abraham Lincoln
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"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
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"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Lets 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
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln
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"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