Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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  Motivational, Honesty, Important

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

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  Trying, Succeed, Last Words

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.461, Wildside Press LLC

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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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  Motivational, Success, Humor

  Quoted in John Hay, Diary, 24 Dec. 1863.

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• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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  Character, Tree, Shadow

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

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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

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  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

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  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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  Bulldogs, Holding On, Choke

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.234, Stackpole Books

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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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  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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  Nature, Animal, Compassion

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• Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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  Work, Political, Politics

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

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  Trust, Hate, Liars

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

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  War, Eight, Years

  Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

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• All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

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  Wisdom, T Shirt, Shirts

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• We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

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  Overcoming, May, Danger

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.20, Fordham Univ Press

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• If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

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  Friendship, World, Brilliant

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• As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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  Men, Lasts, Break

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• You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

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  Encouragement, Lying, Fool

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• It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

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  People, Secret

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• Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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  Animal, Men, Workmanship

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected works”

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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

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  Believe, Wind, Forever

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

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• Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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  Laughter, Mind, Awful

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• Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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  Liberty, Frowning, Bosoms

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press

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