Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Motivational
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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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 am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
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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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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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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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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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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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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President