Abraham Lincoln Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let's 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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility
of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everybody likes a compliment.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't worry when you are not recognized,
but strive to be worthy of recognition.
- Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Walk Sayings
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
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