Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Life
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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!
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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.
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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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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
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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.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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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.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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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.
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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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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Be excellent and party on dudes.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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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.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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