Category: Quotes

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

All I have learned, I learned from books.

– Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come

– Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

– Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

– Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

– Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

– Abraham Lincoln

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

– Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Abraham Lincoln