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 LINCOLNAll I have learned, I learned from books.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
-
-
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 -
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict 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 -
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 -
Whatever you are, be a good one.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN