You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNIf there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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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.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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