Discover a treasury of wisdom from the legendary Abraham Lincoln. Dive into this collection of 129 powerful quotes, carefully curated to inspire, enlighten, and provoke thought. Immerse yourself in the thoughts and ideas of one of America’s greatest leaders, the Great Emancipator. From leadership and perseverance to justice and equality, these quotes encapsulate Lincoln’s timeless wisdom. Explore the profound words of Abraham Lincoln and let his insights guide and inspire you on your journey.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
1 “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
2- “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.” -Abraham Lincoln
3- “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
4- “I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.” -Abraham Lincoln
5- “I was a little cross. I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.” -Abraham Lincoln
6- “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
7- “Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.” -Abraham Lincoln
8- “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” -Abraham Lincoln
9- “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
10- “I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.” -Abraham Lincoln
11- “There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” -Abraham Lincoln
12- “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” -Abraham Lincoln
13- “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
14- “I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.” -Abraham Lincoln
16- “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” -Abraham Lincoln
17- “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
18- “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -Abraham Lincoln
19- “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
20- “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.” -Abraham Lincoln
21- “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” -Abraham Lincoln
22- “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” -Abraham Lincoln
23- “No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” -Abraham Lincoln
24- “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” -Abraham Lincoln
25- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” -Abraham Lincoln
26- “All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” -Abraham Lincoln
27- “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” -Abraham Lincoln
28- “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” -Abraham Lincoln
29- “A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.” -Abraham Lincoln
30- “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” -Abraham Lincoln
31- “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” -Abraham Lincoln
32- “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
33- “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” -Abraham Lincoln
34- “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” -Abraham Lincoln
35- “Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
36- “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” -Abraham Lincoln
37- “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” -Abraham Lincoln
38- “Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.” -Abraham Lincoln
39- “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” -Abraham Lincoln
40- “I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.” -Abraham Lincoln
41- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” -Abraham Lincoln
42- “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” -Abraham Lincoln
43- “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
44- “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” -Abraham Lincoln
45- “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” -Abraham Lincoln
46- “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
47- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
48- “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
49- “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” -Abraham Lincoln
50- “Everybody likes a compliment.” -Abraham Lincoln
51- “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
52- “As our case is new, we must think and act a new.” -Abraham Lincoln
53- “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.” -Abraham Lincoln
54- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln
55- “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
56- “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
57- “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” -Abraham Lincoln
58- “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Abraham Lincoln
59- “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.” -Abraham Lincoln
60- “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” -Abraham Lincoln
61- “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
62- “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
63- “All I have learned, I learned from books.” -Abraham Lincoln
64- “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” -Abraham Lincoln
65- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln
66- “It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.” -Abraham Lincoln
67- “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
68- “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” -Abraham Lincoln
69- “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” -Abraham Lincoln
70- “Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.” -Abraham Lincoln
71- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
72- “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
73- “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” -Abraham Lincoln
80- “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” -Abraham Lincoln
81- “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” -Abraham Lincoln
82- “You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!” -Abraham Lincoln
83- “Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.” -Abraham Lincoln
84- “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
85- “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.” -Abraham Lincoln
86- “Nothing will divert me from my purpose.” -Abraham Lincoln
87- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” -Abraham Lincoln
88- “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.” -Abraham Lincoln
89- “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
90- “I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God’s side.” -Abraham Lincoln
91- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” -Abraham Lincoln
92- “Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.” -Abraham Lincoln
93- “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” -Abraham Lincoln
94- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” -Abraham Lincoln
95- “The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.” -Abraham Lincoln
96- “Honor is better than honors.” -Abraham Lincoln
97- “I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.” -Abraham Lincoln
98- “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.” -Abraham Lincoln
99- “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” -Abraham Lincoln
100- “Sir, 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
101- “Don’t worry, eat three square meals a day, say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good, steer clear of biliousness, exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good life.” -Abraham Lincoln
102- “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
103- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” -Abraham Lincoln
104- “I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.” -Abraham Lincoln
105- “Life is hard but so very beautiful.” -Abraham Lincoln
107- “Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.” -Abraham Lincoln
108- “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” -Abraham Lincoln
109- “Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.” -Abraham Lincoln
110- “In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.” -Abraham Lincoln
111- “You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.” -Abraham Lincoln
112- “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 insufficient for that day.” -Abraham Lincoln
113- “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
114- “All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.” -Abraham Lincoln
115- “Lets 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
116- “Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.” -Abraham Lincoln
117- “A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the yet unsolved ones.” -Abraham Lincoln
118- “No man ever got lost on a straight road.” -Abraham Lincoln
119- “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindred’s.” -Abraham Lincoln
120- “If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.” -Abraham Lincoln
121- “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.” -Abraham Lincoln
122- “Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” -Abraham Lincoln
123- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” -Abraham Lincoln
124- “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” -Abraham Lincoln
125- “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” -Abraham Lincoln
126- “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” -Abraham Lincoln
127- “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” -Abraham Lincoln
128- “Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.” -Abraham Lincoln
129- “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” -Abraham Lincoln
