Abraham Lincoln Quotes

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Sir, 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.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.