Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 11

• Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Stranger, Mets

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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 what light I have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust In God, Guile, Respectability

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.733, Modern Library

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• It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Cheer, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jealousy, Men, Helping

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trying, Succeed, Last Words

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

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

  Abraham Lincoln

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  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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• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Humor

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

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• I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Two, Southern

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• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sea, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Tree, Shadow

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

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Race

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Civil War, Charity

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Hate, Liars

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  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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• The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liars, Atheism, Patient

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

  Abraham Lincoln

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Animal, Compassion

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eight, Years

  Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

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