100 Abraham Lincoln Quotes that will Inspire you
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician, lawyer and vocal opponent of slavery. He served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865. He is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to his role as the savior of union and emancipator of the slaves.
Born – February 12, 1809
Died – April 15, 1865 (56)
Cause of Death – Assassination
Nationality – American
Occupation – Politician and lawyer
Known for – 16th president of United States and, savior of union and emancipator of the slaves.
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like” ― Abraham Lincoln
“All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” ― 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
“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Everybody likes a compliment.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“All I have learned, I learned from books.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to. I wish to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization” ― Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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 their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” ― Abraham Lincoln
