Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Honesty
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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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 the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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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.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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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.
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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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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.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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