Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 3

• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Principles, Links, Divine

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• When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Opponents, Arguing

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• Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

  Abraham Lincoln

  Witty, Remember, Telling The Truth

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Character, Commitment

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• When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Son, People

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Loyalty, Leader

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• Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

  Abraham Lincoln

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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• 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.

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

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

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Hope, Peace

  Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

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• What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Want, Faces

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• Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Gods Will

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• Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, People, Doubt

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• The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Friendship, Leadership

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

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• I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sides, Praying, Boast

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• Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, 4th Of July, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Us Veterans

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.86, Fordham Univ Press

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