Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Lawyers

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)
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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness
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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom
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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Twilight

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Government, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

• If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.485, Library of America

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

• A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Advice, Lawyer, Trade

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

• When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Law, Example

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.160, Jazzybee Verlag

• I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Facts, Court

• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confidence, Perseverance, Law

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Yoga, Procrastination, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Procrastination, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.45, Fordham Univ Press

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